Quick Takes

Oddball occurences

Smoked out

Firefighters couldn't figure out why a Wadsworth, Ohio, man left the scene of his housefire until they went into his basement. "It seemed so strange to me," Wadsworth Fire Chief Ralph Copley said. "If it were my home burning, I'd want to be there." That is, unless you used your basement as a large-scale marijuana garden. Authorities confiscated nearly $700,000 worth of marijuana plants after firefighters contained the fire in a $229,000 home owned by Lan Le. Also confiscated from the basement: 1,000-watt light bulbs, peat moss, and light-reflecting discs.

Ice mystery

The ice was falling in Loma Linda, Calif., but no one knows why. Sometime during the morning on April 13, a two-foot chunk of ice fell from the sky, crashing through the roof of a gymnasium on the Loma Linda University campus. Maintenance men working on a campus building's roof report seeing an airplane in the area. For now, university officials are going with that explanation; authorities packaged up the ice and shipped it to the Federal Aviation Administration for investigation.

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April 29, 2006, Vol. 21, No. 17

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