Strange but True

Testimony from an 82-year-old woman helped convict the "Golden Age Burglar."
The Rio Blanco County Sheriff's Department reported averaging 58 "hunter rescues" per year.

A Littleton woman was arrested on suspicion of felony theft after she agreed to sell hundreds of wedding gowns on consignment and allegedly absconded with the garments.

The youth pastor at a Lakewood church was accused of trying to poison his wife by putting "toxic jimsonweed seeds" in her chicken-salad sandwich.

An Eaton man was arrested for investigation of atttempted second-degree murder after his wife awoke to find a "hissing propane bottle" in her bedroom.

A Boulder man was charged with indecent exposure and criminal tampering after he stripped in front of a 7-Eleven store, mooned the storefront and then stuck a condom wrapper and a lotto ticket to the front window.

A nonprofit ministry made plans to open the World Prayer Center in Colorado Springs, where prayer requests from around the world could be assembled, evaluated for "urgency" and then assigned to churches or ministries for processing.

A robber in Colorado Springs held up so many fast-food restaurants that he had to laminate his demand note.

Six elementary school students in Castle Rock were sent to the hospital with "burning eyes and mouths" after an eleven-year-old girl brought a bottle of Total Insanity hot sauce to school on a dare.

A Nucla newspaper's offices were partially destroyed after the publisher's wife allegedly set the building on fire.

A Boulder County man awakened by the sound of his car horn ran out of his home to find a full-grown bear behind the wheel.

A bear was killed in what police described as a "hit and run" incident at Mesa Verde National Park.

The Colorado Division of Wildlife enforced a "two strikes and you're out" policy against bears caught damaging property or exhibiting aggressive behavior.

Authorities in Durango reported that a bear "panicked" after being spotted rummaging in a Taco Bell dumpster, ran into the street and was sideswiped by a car.

An Arvada man died after falling into a cement mixer.

A Fort Lupton man died after attempting to swim over a 300-foot dam.
A Denver man died after falling into a river while sunbathing.

An Adams County tree trimmer died after falling out of a tree.

A construction worker installing lights at a soccer field died when a 4,000-pound pillar rolled down a hill, crushing him.

A Fort Carson soldier died after the forklift she was driving rolled off a loading dock and landed on top of her.

A man died when he fell off Flagstaff Mountain while trying to retrieve his wallet.

Four members of a San Luis Valley farming family died in a plane crash after they threw their mother's ashes out of the aircraft and the material blew back in the pilot's face.

While CPR was being performed on a South Dakota man who'd been struck by lightning near Dotsero, the man was struck by lightning a second time and killed.