Weird News

“But officer, missing ‘Breaking Bad’ *IS* an emergency!” [August 19, 2013] Residents in Fairfield County bombarded 911 operators with angry phone calls after their Cablevision connections temporarily went out, prompting condemnation from …

Don’t know if this is “weird” as much as it’s just plain dumb. You just can’t make it up! [March 24, 2010] Fairfield police easily arrested two would-be criminals who phoned ahead …

Probably not a birthday party. [March 29, 2012] East Hartford police discovered a slaughtered sheep surrounded by a ring of candles on a river bank not far from town hall … Source: …

Maybe he was making a cannonball run? [February 2, 2013] A pedestrian discovered a cannonball in the yard of an Enfield home, and then brought it home to his own house … …

Even more impressive is that he did it in all this rain. [May 21, 2011] Ed Jarrett of Canton broke his own world record, building the tallest sand castle at Winding Trails …

Probably didn’t even have a chance to hit the snooze button. [January 31, 2012] A New Haven man who had been asleep in his bed was injured after being pinned under a …

That’s gonna leave a mark. [November 6, 2013] Elliot the cat of Norwich is recovering after he was discovered having been shot with an arrow, which somehow missed all vital organs and …

Seems to be more a fight about money than religion, as usual. [February 5, 2012] The Catholic diocese of Norwich is claiming that an Ashland “monastery” and the “nuns” who live there …

Sounds like a purr-fect solution. [November 22, 2011] A Middletown man was prohibited from coming into contact with his wife’s cats via a protective order issued by the court … Source: Middletown …

It’s NOT the end of the world. Again. [March 26, 2010] CCSU astronomy professor Kristine Larsen debunks the baseless notion that 2012 marks doomsday according to the Mayan’s long calendar … Source: …

There’s a joke about “monk”-eying around in here somewhere. [July 20, 2013] Charges were dropped against a Trumbull man who tried to extort money from a Buddhist monk in a bizarre plot …

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: …