You’re doing it wrong, Clyde.
[April 30, 2009] An inept bank robber broke his leg during a tumble and lost all his stolen money while fleeing the crime scene in Cornwall Bridge . . .
Source: Waterbury Republican-American

Maybe if it had put on a safety belt when if first jumped in, it wouldn’t have gone out the other window.
[April 30, 2009] In Cheshire on Tuesday, a deer jumped through the side window of a moving minivan , thrashed around in the back seat and then crashed through the other back window before dying . . .
Source: Waterbury Republican-American

Does this mean we can now “pig out” on the pig who used to “pig out” on books?
[April 30, 2009] Daisy, the 115-pound world-famous potbellied pig who toured the nation encouraging kids to “pig out” on reading, died at her home in Bristol . . . .
Source: NBC 30

Look, up in the sky! Are they contrails — simple vapor condensation trails left by jets — or are they chem-trails, possibly more sinister residue left behind on purpose? Get your tinfoil hats ready, it’s conn-spiracy time!

We recently wrote about the dark history Fairfield Hills and the hauntings that are supposed to have gone on there.
[April 28, 2009] The allegedly haunted tunnels underneath Fairfield Hills State Hospital are being demolished …
Source: NBC 30

He says he wanted to “live like Jesus” but really he was acting like Adam. And with a name like Angelo Dicks, and that he was on Short Beach, well, insert your own joke here.
[April 28, 2009] A Stratford man who says he is living like Jesus was arrested for sunbathing nude on Short Beach …
Source: Connecticut Post

Wipeout! (And where the heck were they surfing on the East Coast in April?!)
[April 26, 2009] Surfboards fell off the roof of a car in Westport, resulting in a multicar crash that sent at least woman to the hospital . . .
Source: Connecticut Post

I thought this kind of thing only happened in old Charlie Chaplin films!
[April 26, 2009] A Bridgeport woman fell into a manhole that was left open by vandals . . .
Source: Connecticut Post

We recently wrote about Leona Helmsley’s former Greenwich home, Dunnellen Hall, which some believed to be cursed.
[April 22, 2009] Originally listed at $125 million, the price for Leona Helmsley’s 28-room Greenwich mansion has been reduced yet again, now down to a mere $75 million …
Source: Greenwich Time

Okay, this is more terrifying than any ghost story you can tell.
[April 22, 2009] In Connecticut, hospitals reported 65 cases of leaving “retained objects” in patients during the four-year period from mid-2004 to mid-2008, according to state Department of Public Health records…
Source: Hartford Courant