Rook to queen’s pawn six? That’s a stabbing!
[January 7, 2009] A Bridgeport man was stabbed with a plastic snow shovel after a dispute arose over a game of chess …
Source: Connecticut Post
Has it been a year already since we launched Damned Connecticut? Man, time really does fly when you are having as much fun as we are! And there’s more to come …
I wonder if it’s Geronimo?
[January 5, 2010] A skull used as a ballot box and a inscribed bone, both believed to be from Yale’s legendary “secret” Skull & Bones society, are going to be auctioned off later this month by Christie’s …
Source: NBC 30
And now they know the way to jail, too!
[January 5, 2009] A pair of scrap-metal thieves were caught when they stopped to ask a Branford police officer for directions to I-95 …
Source: NBC 30
Is this wrong? Should he not have done that?
Source: NBC 30
This seems like the set-up for a Mel Brooks bit.
[January 1, 2009] Torrington police captured a bank robber who was identified by witnesses by his rather large proboscis …
Source: Hartford Courant
Wait, this is illegal? Actually it sounds like a bunch of kids just screwing around.
[January 1, 2010] An 18-year-old West Hartford man was arrested for driving across town with a 15-year-old boy in the trunk of his Volkswagen Jetta …
Source: Hartford Courant
Well … that’s just awkward. And reeeal hard to un-do.
[December 31, 2009] A Prospect funeral home accidentally cremated the remains of a Waterbury woman slated for a traditional wake and burial …
Source: Hartford Courant
Whoa, dude. Irony.
[December 31, 2009] Police arrested a Pawcatuck couple for illegally growing marijuana after they were traced to brownies laced with drugs that had been eaten by students at Stonington High …
Source: New London Day
As we bid farewell to 2009, we take a look back at some of the most memorable weird news stories that happened in Connecticut over the past 12 months, from parents put up for sale and planes crashing weddings to bunnies with two noses and a fake Bigfoot.
