Bomb? Call back tomorrowWhile walking the beach in Pensacola, Fla., Stacy Cook, 45, found what she described as a “cool artifact” and brought it home. She took a photo with her cell phone camera and sent it to her boyfriend. “He called me back a few minutes later and said, ‘That looks like a bomb,'” Cook said. Her boyfriend advised her to call the Navy immediately. “I called the Navy, and they said, ‘Can you call back tomorrow?’ And I said, ‘I really don’t think so.”‘ She called the police, who evacuated her condominium building and then disposed the World War II-era practice bomb. Cook said she’ll be a little more careful. “I’m not (even) picking up a Diet Coke can,” she said. (Pensacola News) The contents of which are even more dangerous than the bomb.www.thisistrue.comGoing back to college – deadThe University of Notre Dame in South Bend, In., is selling crypts in its mausoleum for as much as $11,000. The mausoleum is a “Coming Home” for alumni who want to return to their alma mater when they die. The package deal includes themed urns and caskets. It’s a way for people to spend eternity at the capture the best years of their life according to the university. ‘Those were the best days of my life’,” says Cemetery consultant Mel Malkoff said, “Why not spend eternity there?” Most people said college was the best years of their life.It gives new meaning to alumni homecoming!Excerpts from www.thisistrue.com
