Centuries-old gunpowder found in an antique-weapons exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago was still powerful enough to have blown the building to smithereens.
Staffers cleaning a collection of 300 weapons, found the 200-year-old black powder, which had the power of seven sticks of dynamite.
“A bump could have set it off. It could have done a fair deal of damage had something horrible happened,” said the museum’s head of collections.
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The owner of a Kentucky porn shop closed his business and burned $10,000 worth of smut – claiming Jesus told him to do it.
Michael Braithwaite of Putney says the holy message came to him after he was hurt in a car accident and he realized he was in a “sinful business.” Now he plans to open a Christian bookstore.
Braithwaite faces charges of advertising and distributing obscene material in connection with his now-defunct business.
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A wanted crook is now a prisoner of love after going on a blind date – with a woman who turned out to be a cop.
The policewoman, probing a series of crimes in the German town of Recklinghausen, found the 29-year-old suspect’s cell-phone number, and landed a date with him at a bar.
There, she boozed with – then busted – him.
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A coughing fit nearly cost a man his life when he crashed his car into a tree in upstate New York.
Reiner Beckmann, 51, was driving in Hoosick, near the Vermont border, when he began coughing uncontrollably, passed out and veered off the road. He suffered a broken arm.
Cops told him that from now on, he’s got to steer clear of driving when he feels a cough coming on.
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In Japan, it’s Godzilla that disrupts train service. In Wales, it’s Ronald McDonald.
Trains were halted on the Newport West line after a giant, inflatable Ronald McDonald got loose from a nearby restaurant and blew onto the tracks.
As cops rushed to the scene, the fast-food mascot took off.
“It blew off again and ended up somewhere else,” a rail spokesman said.