Yesterday morning, employees of the Patriot Bank on 5th Street arrived to find a serious stank emanating from the bank’s safe. The employees were quarantined and first responders entered the bank in moonsuits, only to find that somebody had dumped a grocery bag full of cow’s stomach in the night deposit box. (Eeeewww.) Julie Stavitski has the story in today’s Progress. In other news, there’s apparently some bank called the “Patriot Bank” in Charlottesville. Who knew?
Sideblog
- Alarming news: The wells have gone dry in an Earlysville subdivision. #
- Barnes & Noble is looking to move into the old Goody's space in Barracks Road, though it would require a tear-down. #
- The woman who said she was bit by a pit bull running loose near Meade Park? She lied—she was bitten by her own dog. #
- Here's your annual weekend-before warning: Hide your daughters, lock your doors, stay off the roads...the students are coming. #
- Nailgun on Red Light's proposed musical venue on Preston. #
- Photoblogger and generally awesome guy Bill Emory has been appointed to the Planning Commission. #
- C-Ville Weekly profiles the proprietor of local blog Cvillain #
- Remember, school starts in the county Wednesday, so prepare to wait behind school buses in the morning and afternoon. #
- VDOT is just about done retiming the lights on 29N. #
- Olympics update: Adam Nelson didn't get anywhere with the shot put, but Lindsay Shoop got a gold in rowing. #
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This is a community news blog about Charlottesville, VA, USA, started in March of 2001. It's run by Waldo Jaquith. It has nothing to do with C-Ville Weekly, the newspaper. Feel free to submit a story.
I think that’s the bank right next to Taco Bell at Albemarle Square.
That’s almost as good as the Progress story that began "30,000 pounds of dead chickens oozed like clumpy, rotten molasses onto Interstate 64…"
"grocery bag full of cow’s stomach"
If Julie meant a single cow , I wonder how she managed to stomach the rigors of determining it was merely one cow`s stomach? But perhaps she was just describing tripe.
Actually, to be fair, those were my words, used because of this passage in the Progress article:
In that context, it makes more sense that my usage. And, no, I didn’t check. :)