elderly man dropped a bowling bowl 17 stories and almost hit
him. Douglas Stiff, 69, dropped the 16-pound ball from his
17th floor Brooklyn apartment balcony Monday night, police
said. When officers reached Stiff's apartment they found him
with binoculars around his neck and empty beer cans and
bottles of cheap rum next to a metal seat. "It slipped,"
Stiff reportedly told them. However, officers found a
second bowling ball racked up on the balcony -- ready to
roll. Minutes before Stiff allegedly dropped the ball, he
called 911, saying, "I was robbed. Send the police." It was
unclear if Stiff, who was sentenced to a year in prison in
1991 for assault and criminal possession of a weapon, was
trying to strike police or pin down someone else. Stiff was
not immediately arrested or charged.
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