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Saturday, November 06, 2004

28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, & 12 seconds

A real life Donnie Darko:

KING 5: Mystery ice ball crashes through roof of Kent home
KING 5 News

A Kent, Wash. family arrived home yesterday to discover a gaping hole in their roof, apparently caused by a chunk of ice.

The ice had slammed through the ceiling of Troy Halte's home and landed on his eight-year-old daughter Breeze's bed.

But no one yet knows where the ice came from.

The incident left ice crystals all over the girl's bed as well as outside in the Halte's yard.

Troy Halte says his yard and house were peppered with ice balls.

Just back from ballet lessons, Breeze discovered the hole in the ceiling above her bed and on it three giant ice balls the family has stored in the freezer.

"I was scared to death actually. I didn't know what it was," Troy Halte said, pointing to the place on his daughter's bed that had been soaked through.

Commercial jets routinely fly over the Halte's house, so they're wondering if they were hit by blue ice, usually created when restroom holding tanks leak in flight.

The FAA is investigating, but says blue ice is very rare.

Whatever it was, Troy Halte his thankful the ice bomb hit before his daughter's bedtime.

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