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A Shower Of Human Poop

In May 2015, Philadelphia girl Jacinda Cambray and her family were celebrating her 16th birthday with grilling, swimming, horseshoes, and other good clean backyard fun. But before they were done soaking up that famous late-spring Philly sunshine, an uninvited guest decided to crash the party and rain on her parade with a shower of actual human feces.

Right after the birthday cake had been passed around, the guests noticed that something foul was being bombed into the backyard. It didn't take them long to realize it was shit, raining from the sky like a very immature god's idea of a plague. The next minutes passed by pretty much as you'd imagine. There were tears and cursing, followed by water hoses, followed by the devastating realization that someone else has shit your pants.

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Apples

The village of Keresley is famous for being the birthplace of actor Clive Owen and ... not much else. But on December 12, 2011, a reason to finally get a second paragraph on their Wikipedia page came down from the sky: mystery apples.

It was right after "rush hour" -- or whatever you call the drive home when you work in a village of fewer than 1,000 people -- that something happened which shook the Keresleyians to their core. Without warning, hundreds of apples suddenly fell from the sky, pelting people, cars, yards, and pavement over a 20-yard area. And while one apple a day might keep the doctor away, it turns out that a few hundred plummeting to Earth cause damage to cars and make a rather unappealing mess.

radulep/Adobe Stock"I haven't seen a Granny Smith fall that hard since Nana broke her hip!"

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Ice Missiles

If there's one thing you'd expect to fall from the sky, it's water. And whether it takes the form of rain, snow, or mist, all falling water can really do is ruin your hair or give you a cold. But if that's what you think, you're a damn fool who's going to get themselves impaled by a vicious ice spear.

In February 2018, a street cleaner working near London's Kew Gardens was quietly doing his job when a block of ice dropped out of the clear blue sky and missed him by only a couple feet. In March 2016, a football-sized chunk of ice crash-landed at a car dealership, shattering the windshield of a parked Kia Soul. And in November 2017, a slab of ice tore through the roof of a Chino, California home and landed in an upstairs bathtub. There are more examples, but you get the picture: The sky is falling.

McCafferty Auto GroupThe accident prompted some Soul-searching ...

While nobody's really positive where all these ice missiles are coming from, the general consensus is that they must be falling off airplanes. It's not uncommon for planes at a high enough altitude to build up small pockets of ice, which are almost as dangerous for the plane itself as it is for the poor suckers on the ground who have to dodge the glacial missiles. Fortunately, the odds are excellent that you'll never be hit -- or even nearly hit -- by an ice spike falling from the sky. Then again, they're the same odds those poor bastards had.

But if there's a frozen torpedo with your name on it, you'll probably hear it before it hits you. A witness said the one in Kew Gardens "made such a loud noise -- like a meteorite crashing down," and while we've never heard a meteorite, we'll go ahead and take his word for it. Employees at the car dealership said their chunk "made that noise you hear from the fireworks that spin," while the poor woman in Chino whose bathtub got bombed said she thought there was "an explosion." So like an actual bomb dropped from an airplane. Remind us again how United Airlines isn't violating the Geneva Convention with these things?

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