Monday, November 27, 2017

Wild stories about the Connecticut Post

CTP:
In October, 1981, one of the Post’s wire service editors died at his desk, about two hours before deadline.

His head fell into his glue pot; in those days, rubber cement was used to glue pages of copy together so the typesetters wouldn’t lose track of a part of the story.

The tragedy was discovered by another copy editor, and an ambulance was summoned. But the glue pot had hardened

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It was soon discovered that the weapon was owned by one of the Post’s younger staffers who had become a drug dealer. His handgun went off accidentally when he dropped his coat.

He was later arrested in the newspaper’s lobby and charged with selling cocaine. A Bridgeport cop had been working undercover as a janitor, and helped make the bust.

”He was one of the best janitors we ever had,”