In a newsroom there are always stories that happen on a regular basis.
These are the bread and milk of the publication, whether it be columns, match reports or Preps starting school — you know the content is coming and you know when it will be there.
But the yarns that come from left field — those leads that make you sit up in your chair just a little bit straighter and say “I haven’t heard that one in a while” — tend to stick with you.
A man being knocked into a grave he was helping dig is one of those.
We wish him well on his recovery — but it also had us thinking about some of the recent stories (and one from a while back) that surprised us with their arrival.
Here’s some of them below.