The news fascinates me. Not the national TV news where one network is trying to outdo the other, but the local, ‘here’s what your neighbors are up to’ news.

Sometimes I scratch my head when the body of a story has little or nothing to do with the headline. More often than not, that actual story leaves me wondering. Take the example of the fellow over in Norway, Maine, who crashed his car into a house at 4 a.m. He smashed the wall of the apartment in and sent the refrigerator flying across the kitchen. What does one do when one has crashed into a house on the way to work?

Why, you continue to work, of course.

When the cops caught up to him at work, he couldn’t remember what happened, but he made it to work. Imagine that. Another interesting aspect of this article is that the driver met someone and got a ride to work.

Wouldn’t you think the other person would say something like, “Dude, what happened to your car?”

No explanation for these things in the story.

Here’s another piece of the story that seems bizarre: The woman who lived in the apartment had no idea what had happened. She didn’t even hear anything. She only realized that something had happened when she walked into the kitchen and her refrigerator was on the other side of the room. She thought her fridge had blown up.

This story reminds me of a Yogi Berra quote, “Nobody knew nothing about nothing.”

The driver had no idea what happened and the tenant had no idea what happened. Thankfully the police were able to figure it out and share with these two folks what had gone on early that morning. That’s what cops are for.

A more bizarre story was recently in the news.

Seems this lady got hurt at work at Home Depot. They paid workers comp and funded an operation to correct whatever had happened. Two years ago, the lady disappeared. No trace. Home Depot has been paying the workers’ comp payments to a trust in case the lady reappears, much to the dismay of the lady’s daughter who originally was getting the payments.

Now Home Depot has been let off the hook and doesn’t have to pay any more workers’ comp payments to the missing lady. Again, the daughter was upset and took them to court.

Why, you might ask? What sort of a case would there be to justify worker’s comp payments to a missing person who may or may not be able to work?

It seems that her lawyer argued that the law says in order to stop worker’s comp payments; the employer needs to notify the employee in advance of stopping the payments. You guessed it. Since nobody knows where the missing lady is, Home Depot couldn’t notify her and therefore should continue making the payments.

She didn’t win.

I am not making this stuff up.

And finally, there's this: "Daylight Saving Time Can Cause Heart Attacks, Study Finds."

Really?

Yup. It seems they studied patients at hospitals in Michigan for four years and found that more people had heart attacks on the Monday after setting the clocks ahead. The doctor, yes doctor, who explained the study connected it with lack of sleep and determined that the loss of an hour of sleep was the cause of the increase of heart attacks.

Doc, you don't gain or lose anything. You just reset the clocks. That's it. But they had a study.