Do we really need to keep coming up with new ways to kill ourselves?
[January 9, 2010] A woman who killed herself in Bloomfield recently is believed to be the state’s first case of “chemical suicide,” a growing trend where a mix of common household chemicals are used to create deadly hydrogen sulfide gas …
Source: Hartford Courant

Wouldn’t it have made more sense to give the money to a website that specializes in weird, unexplained and unusual (and lucky) things?
[January 9, 2010] Yale University announced that they have received a pledge for $8,888,888 from a Chinese alumnus because 8 is considered a lucky number in Chinese culture …
Source: Yale Daily News

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

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?

[January 5, 2009] Pat Laffaye of Westport scored 896,980 points to set the new world record for the video game Frogger, beating the fictional high score set by George Costanza in an episode of “Seinfeld” …

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