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Falling ice lands in Brigantine

By ELAINE ROSE Staff Writer,
Published: Sunday, May 21, 2006
Updated: Sunday, May 21, 2006

BRIGANTINE — No, it wasn't a snowstorm in May, and not even hail, when a Shipmaster Drive resident saw a block of ice fall from the sky and land on his lawn Saturday evening, police said.

The giant ice cube, measuring about 2 feet around, fell from the sky at about 7:34 p.m. and made a foot-deep crater in the resident's lawn, Lt. Raymond Reganato said. No one was injured.

The resident called police, who surmised that the ice chunk fell from the holding tank of an airplane, Reganato said.

“They usually drop it over the ocean, but I guess they missed,” Reganato said.

Police called the Federal Aviation Administration in an attempt to identify the culprit aircraft, but there were too many flights in the area to make a determination, police said.

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