Home Built On Bowling Balls, But Why? + Digital Grave Robbing

ACROSS AMERICA — A Michigan man wasn’t exactly sure how his home improvement project would roll. He didn’t expect international notoriety.

But he’s internet famous and has turned his property into an archeological dig site after a curious discovery: more than 150 bowling balls under the concrete platform of his porch.

Homeowner David Olson told news outlet WZZM that after he reached out to iconic bowling equipment manufacturer Brunswick, whose logo was on many of the imperfect balls, the mystery is starting to make sense.

“They told me that back in the 1950s, they used to make damaged bowling balls available for people to take for free and use as landfill,” he told the television station. “There's no way to know for certain if that's what the previous homeowner did, but given where the bowling balls were found, it seems logical.” Read the full story on Grand Rapids Patch

Digital Grave Robbing

The families who lost loved ones in the Florida condo collapse now have to worry about something no one in their position should ever have to worry about: identity theft.

"(They) violated the rights of an individual, but worse than that, a deceased individual and a family that is grieving," Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said of the hackers behind the data theft. Read the full story on Miami Patch

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