OFFBEAT NEWS:

Construction Unearths 18th Century Coffins

A construction crew in Philadelphia is digging up things from the past…literally. PMC Properties found some human bones in the fall when they began construction on an apartment building in the historic district of the town. Now, they’re finding fully intact coffins.

The site used was a burial ground dating back to 1707 but it was believed the bodies had been exhumed and moved to another cemetery in the 1800s.

Kimberlee Moran, an associate teaching professor who was brought on board by PMC Properties, says as many as 60 individuals have been found since February. In one morning alone, workers uncovered about two dozen intact coffins.

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Man Paddleboards Across The Atlantic Ocean

Chris Bertish is officially in the record books. The surfer became the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo, unassisted and unsupported, on a stand-up paddleboard.

All in all, he traveled 4-thousand-500 nautical miles from Morocco to Antigua and it wasn’t exactly an easy trip. Over the 93-day journey, he encountered everything from equipment troubles to sharks.

This trip wasn’t all for the glory, though. Bertish set out to raise enough money to build at least five schools in South Africa, provide monthly dividends to feed and educate thousands of children and pay for surgeons to carry out cleft lip and palate operations. He teamed up with Signature of Hope Trust, the Lunchbox Foundation, and Operation Smile and managed to raise over $412-thousand.

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Lawyer’s Pants Literally Catch On Fire In Court

If a liar’s pants really do catch on fire, then Steven Gutierrez is going to have a hard time in court. The Miami lawyer was giving his closing arguments when his pants caught on fire. Incredibly, it was an arson case.

Gutierrez was arguing that his client’s car spontaneously combusted and was not intentionally set on fire when smoke started coming out of his pants pocket. According to the “Miami Herald,” he had been fiddling with something in his pocket before the incident. Once smoke was visible, Guiterrez fled the courtroom.

The 28-year-old eventually came back unharmed with a singed pocket and promised it wasn’t a defense stunt gone wrong. Instead, Gutierrez blamed faulty e-cigarette batteries. The incident is being investigated and depending on the conclusion, the judge in the case could decide to hold the smoking lawyer in contempt of court.

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STUPID CRIMINALS:

Dead shark discovered in shopping cart:

As assistant manager at a Walmart in St. Augustine, Florida called police after she found a four to five-foot-long dead shark in the parking lot. As it turns out, a man woke up to find the animal on the hood of his RV and he was the one who placed it on the ground. Who put the shark on the RV is the question police now have to answer. In the meantime, officers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission removed and disposed of the shark. The strangest part? Another dead shark was found in a driveway nearby earlier in the week, but no one filed an incident report.

Police use ice cream to link criminal to the scene:

Robert Corbit Hodges will most likely have a criminal record thanks to his sweet tooth. The 20-year-old is now believed to be the one who busted windows at a dozen buildings in Charleston, South Carolina. Police received word an alarm had been triggered and found Hodges drunk, bleeding and carrying a container of gelato nearby. Investigators later determined the ice cream had been stolen from a grocery store which had been part of Hodges’ rampage. He’s now facing a vandalism charge