oddly enough

oddly enough

Cleanup crew finds prosthetic leg along Shenango River

SHARON, Pa.

One item stood out when a cleanup crew gathered 21 tons of trash from the banks of the Shenango River in western Pennsylvania: a prosthetic leg with a shoe still attached.

The Shenango River Watchers have been cleaning up near the river since the group was founded nine years ago. Co-founder Rick Barborak says crews have found a few unusual items over the years, including a concrete lawn duck the group has kept as a mascot, “Scrappy the Duck.”

But the leg found Saturday in Sharon is one of the most unusual items.

The group has collected about 800,000 pounds of trash over the years, much of it scrap steel from one part of the bank that had become an unofficial dump.

Security camera in Ohio captures runaway saw blade

LORAIN, Ohio

A home security camera in Ohio has captured a construction mishap that could have been a lot worse.

Video from the camera shows a large blade spinning off a saw being used to cut through a street. The blade then rolled through a yard and ended up leaving a 3-foot gash in the side of an empty house in Lorain, 26 miles west of Cleveland.

Rachel Gayhart says she and her husband checked their video Monday to see why the street work wasn’t finished.

She says the blade missed a gas meter on the side of the neighboring house by only 2 feet.

The video shows a construction worker retrieving the runaway blade and putting it back on the saw.

Lorain officials say the firm doing the work under contract for the city is investigating the incident.