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Colorado community wants to sell Frozen Dead Guy Days

BOULDER, Colo.

The Nederland Area Chamber of Commerce in Colorado is offering to sell the rights to a celebration of a frozen dead guy.

Bredo Morstoel’s corpse has been packed in dry ice in a shed at the mountain town since 1993.

He died in 1989 at age 89, and his Norwegian family preserved his body in hopes technology will be developed to bring him back to life.

The 10-year-old festival, called Frozen Dead Guy Days, attracted 15,000 people in March. It features a parade of hearses, frozen- salmon tossing and coffin races.

Interim chamber president Blue Hessner says the chamber wants to sell rights to the event and concentrate on business development.

According to the Boulder Daily Camera, the event has become too expensive, and the chamber believes an event company could do a better job.

Truck crashes into Ohio home where man watches TV

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio

A man watching TV at his home in southwest Ohio says he was shocked into reality when a pickup truck plowed into his living room and came to rest a few feet from his couch.

Fifty-nine-year-old Steve Ferguson tells the Middletown Journal he was lucky, because the Ford pickup would have run him over if he’d been sitting at his computer in a corner of the room.

No one was hurt in the crash early Thursday afternoon in Butler County’s Madison Township.

The truck’s 19-year-old driver told police he hit the house after losing control on wet pavement.

Butler County Sheriff’s Deputy Mike Baker said the man would be charged with failure to control.

Prison fugitive caught after knocking on wrong door

SEATTLE

An escaped convict was caught after a day on the loose after he knocked on a cabin door — only to find out the man renting the lodge was an off-duty guard at the prison he just fled.

Authorities said James Edward Russell, 39, took off from the Washington state penitentiary Tuesday morning. Early the next day, Russell — still wearing his prison uniform — went to the cabin asking to use the phone, said Department of Corrections spokesman Chad Lewis on Thursday.

After a scuffle, Russell ran off again, Lewis said. The guard, whose name was being withheld by authorities, reported the incident, and Russell was caught a few hours later.

He had been serving time for forgery and theft.

Associated Press