oddly enough

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DC man orders TV, gets assault rifle instead

WASHINGTON

A Washington musician who ordered a flat-screen TV from Amazon.com was shocked to receive a semiautomatic assault rifle instead.

Seth Horvitz, 38, says he purchased the 39-inch television from a third-party seller. A box arrived from UPS on Tuesday evening, and it seemed too small to contain the TV. He says he initially thought it contained accessories.

But when he opened it, he found a Sig Sauer military-style rifle. He says he had never held a gun before he felt the trigger of the rifle.

An invoice showed that the gun was intended for delivery to a firearms dealer in Duncansville, Pa. Horvitz called police, who took the gun and are investigating how the mistaken shipment occurred. Amazon and UPS had no immediate comment.

Pittsburgh-area man to put ashes in bowling ball

TURTLE CREEK, Pa.

A Pittsburgh-area bowling fanatic has gotten a Utah company to fashion a bowling ball urn for his ashes.

Tony Guarino, 48, tells KDKA-TV that his wife, Stacy, called Storm Products Inc. of Brigham City, Utah, when he began wondering if the bowling ball company could make such a container.

Company official Mike Stewart says Storm was “honored” by the request and has since delivered the ball.

Guarino, of Wilkins Township, is an avid bowler whose only perfect, 300 game was bowled using a Storm ball. But he no longer can bowl because his terminal prostate cancer has spread to his lower back and pelvis.

Stacy Guarino says the ball urn won’t be used for bowling — it will go into her husband’s bowling bag along with a ball his father used.

PennDOT crew paints road line over dead raccoon

JOHNSTOWN, Pa.

A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation official says a crew couldn’t avoid painting over a dead raccoon when they put new double-yellow lines on a western Pennsylvania road last week.

But the Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown reported Thursday that a motorist pointed out the mistake before it could be cleaned up.

Sean McAfee tells the newspaper he almost wrecked his motorcycle because he was laughing so hard when he saw the freshly painted road kill in Johnstown on Aug. 2.

PennDOT spokesman John Ambrosini says paint crews know to avoid such animals and usually have a foreman on the job who clears any dead animals off the road before the paint-spraying truck equipment passes by. This crew didn’t have a foreman, and the equipment was too big to turn around in traffic, remove the animal and repair the paint.

Associated Press