Benny's Weird News: Wednesday Sept 18th

A worker has found what’s believed to be a Civil War cannonball lodged in a Kansas City area tree that he was hired to take down.

KMBC-TV reports the small cannonball fell out as the worker was chopping the diseased tree on the grounds of the Overfelt-Johnston house. The house was used as a hospital during the First Battle of Independence, Missouri,which was fought across the street in 1862.

source: https://apnews.com/186960f659ec4a9491f4cd7ebe0ac3bc?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=AP_Oddities&utm_source=Twitter

A New Zealand man who was told he could bring someone along for support to a meeting where he expected to be fired spent more than $100 hiring a professional clown.

source: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/09/13/Worker-at-New-Zealand-company-brings-clown-to-firing-meeting/5821568401903/?sl=3

There is a time and place for everything. And, more often than not, that place is rarely in the back of a police car.

A Florida couple face a list of charges after a deputy said they had sex in the back of his patrol car.

The Nassau County deputy originally arrested 31-year-old Aaron Thomas and 35-year-old Megan Mondanaro on DUI charges. And then things got a little frisky in the back seat.

source: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article235144277.html