Okay, so maybe it was just a huge chunk of ice.  But nonetheless, this actually happened and no one can explain it.  The piece of ice was about 3 x 3 x 2 1/2 feet.  That would really injure someone!  Fortunately only a clump of grass was displaced, and it is not planning to sue.

The experts really have no idea what happened here.  I was amused by the last sentence of the article :

It could simply be an unexplained "ice fall," one expert said.  Big balls of ice sometimes fall from the sky without any real explanation.

What an expert!  I wonder how much he gets paid for such in-depth and well-researched analysis…

I wonder if some budding evil genius was testing a climate control device.  People have been working on these for years.  If anyone has any info leading to who might be behind this, inform us (the Buffet o' Blog staff) promptly, because, well, we'd really like to check out this new toy!

In the news, scientists have figured out a possible way to remove the stink from dung.  If you want to learn more about the technique, read this article.  The new compound is supposed to turn dung into something that is "quite innocuous — neither pleasant nor unpleasant."  You still wouldn't want to keep manure around, but at least it wouldn't stink so bad…

One thing from the article, it says "Researchers are not yet certain why humans find these smells [of manure] so disgusting."  Uhh, I don't even want to touch that.  I mean, it's POOP!  Not only does it smell disgusting, but it looks disgusting.  And how do they test what makes it stink?  Do they remove one "ingredient" of poop and then smell it again?  Ugh…  (Imagine your business card reading "Chief Manure Analyst".)

This is when you're having a bad day!  A couple in Charlotte, North Carolina, just had 3,000 gallons of raw sewage forced into their house by utility workers.  Of course it was an accident, and fortunately the city has agreed to pay the cost of cleaning (replacing) and for their temporary place of residence.

Here's the news article.

And something kinda alarming — in the "related stories" section, there are 5 articles about sewage spills, and the headlines include words like "catastrophic" and "millions of gallons".  That kind of thing should not be happening anywhere!

Lately some thieves have been stealing oven doors from people's houses. Not even the whole oven, just the door. Now police have figured out why. The thieves are packaging them with a power cord and remote control, and are selling them as flat-screen TVs. And people have been buying them! I couldn't even make this up…

Here's the news article.