A passing jet drops its sewage, and more

A passing jet drops its sewage

A Long Island, N.Y., couple were on their back deck when a passing commercial jet showered them with sewage. Artie Hughes and his wife heard the jet pass overhead, and then felt droplets. “Oh my God, it’s raining,” Hughes’s wife said. Hughes saw “some black liquid” all over his wife’s face, and all over the deck. Fearing that the jet might be leaking hydraulic fluid, he called police, but a cop who examined the drops told him, “Looks like something nastier than that.” It turned out that a plane had accidentally discharged the contents of its sewage tank.

Capt. Francisco Schettino's romance

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A blonde Moldovan rumored to be having an affair with the captain of the Costa Concordia now admits he was romancing her shortly before the Italian cruise ship tore its hull open on a rock. Domnica Cemortan told the London Daily Mail that she’d developed “a crush” on married Capt. Francisco Schettino while working as a translator on the ship, and that on the fateful night, he passionately kissed her, and invited her to the bridge to watch the ship closely pass the island of Giglio, which is when it hit the rock. The ship’s sinking ended their night of romance. “Of course I felt sorry for him,” Cemortan said. “He was always kind to me.”

How not to steal a flat-screen TV

A Minnesota man was arrested after he allegedly hobbled out of a store with a 19-inch flat-screen TV in his pants. A cop noticed Eric Lee King shuffling slowly and strangely through the parking lot, and found a large rectangular shape in his pants. It turned out to be a TV. Police say King was also carrying a remote control, power cords, and a bottle of brake fluid.