Residents of Millville, New Jersey, a small town an hour from Atlantic City, are mystified as to how marijuana started growing in a parks department flower basket hanging from lamp posts on (heh) High Street. On Tuesday afternoon some square spotted the leafy pot stalks sticking out above a patch of flowers in one of the baskets and dutifully notified the authorities. Cops rushed to the scene, mounted a ladder, and removed the proscribed plants. One officer involved in the plant removal theorized that marijuana seeds may have been thrown out of an apartment window above the street. See, if the cops had just let those seeds grow, the people of Millville could have climbed that magical pot stalk to the clouds and be smoking a giant blunt by now. But if the seeds weren't tossed there accidentally, how on earth did they get there? Bystander Pam Elliot had no answers, though she did tell the Press of Atlantic City, "We watch the guys every day, faithfully come out and water and fertilize every basket. That fertilizer is so good." Yep, it's a mystery! more ›

An explosion caused by bug bombs in a Millville apartment left the building in such bad shape that it needed to be condemned following the blast. No one was injured when a pilot light ignited the accelerant inside nine cans of repellent, but it left the kitchen floor sagging, blew out numerous windows on the first floor and moved an exterior wall about two inches. A firefighter on the scene told reporters, "Typically I wouldn't recommend using nine at once. At the end of it all, I don't even think it killed the bugs." A recent explosion of bug bombs in New York hospitalized six people. more ›