And for other mailman news: A mailman is reported to have delivered the mail in the nude…. I’m not kidding. Follow the link. This is from Wisconsin.

Wisconsin is the same state that reports a man being killed by a refrigerator. Here is a quote: According to the medical examiner's report, workers tossed a hot water heater from the third floor and thought it would be amusing to crush it with 170-pound fridge from the fourth floor. Workers said they yelled down to Chmura to tell him they were launching the fridge and he joked, "go ahead, I'll catch it." In Iowa this would be a workers’ compensation claim along with a gross negligence suit.

A large sheet of ice slid off of a tractor-trailer and sliced through the windshield of another car on I-80, causing injury to a female passenger.

And in Missouri a funeral home is reported to have been shut down after …. You’d better read it for yourself. It has to do with ashes, refrigeration, widows and the handling of dead bodies.

Of course on Broadway Spider Man fell 30’, was injured and is hospitalized. I guess he’s not so spidery after all.

The reasons ISU officials give for cutting down three dozen ash trees was fear of emerald ash borer pests.

Someone threw a cement block through a display window at the Des Moines Radio Shack and stole a stereo; one that didn't work.

Scheels in Coralville got sued over a customer using a treadmill that went too fast. I wonder who was at the controls. That will be the first question asked and you'd better have the right answer.