Well, here's your bizarre story for the day.
Last May, Hall of Fame Louisville basketball coach Denny Crum passed away and was laid to rest in a Louisville cemetery and now his custom gravestone has been hurled to the depths of the Red Sea.
The custom granite headstone has not made it to the cemetery, and likely never will.
It should have been in place by now. His widow, Susan Sweeney Crum, spent months making sure the custom granite headstone was made exactly how she envisioned. Earlier this year, after it was handcrafted in India, it was loaded on a cargo ship en route to the top of hillside on the most famous corner of Louisville's most famous cemetery.
But it didn't make it. The elaborate monument now sits at the bottom of the Red Sea.
You read that right. Denny Crum's headstone was seized by pirates and dumped into the ocean.
(I know a guy who might be able to get it back!)
The family spent lots of money on an extravagant headstone using rare Indian red marble from India.
But the Houthi pirates had other plans.
After months of planning for the perfect way to honor Crum's life, the monument was finished overseas. But as tensions between Israel and Hamas heated up, so did Houthi pirate attacks on cargo ships traveling nearby waters.
Sometime early this year, the ship carrying Crum's monument was a target.
'Their aim was to stop commercial and government barging and shipping through the Red Sea in the Suez Canal,' Sweeney Crum said.
This is the most insane sports story I think I've ever covered.
Oh, did I mention that Crum is buried next to Muhammed Ali??
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