2 Funny Stories From The Recent Cold Spell!

A common casualty of cold weather conditions is water pipes freezing and breaking. The record cold temps from this week's "polar vortex" is blamed for causing a literal poop storm inside one Chicago office.

Pipes broke and rained sewage down from the ceiling. Check out this video for a glimpse at your worst nightmare.

It's been freezing almost everywhere this week, but it got so cold in Kentucky that an escaped inmate asked to be taken back to prison.
The strange tale began Monday morning, when Maurice King, the 61-year-old manager of the Sunset Motel in Lexington, heard a knock on the door at the motel.
Standing outside, in a wind chill of about 18 degrees below zero, was Robert Vick, 42, wearing a pair of ripped-up jeans and a khaki prison jumpsuit. Authorities said he'd escaped the Blackburn Correctional Complex about three miles away just the night before.

"I answered the door, and he said, 'Call the law on me,' and I looked at him kinda silly, and he said, 'Well, I’m the one who escaped from Blackburn,' " King told The Times. "He said, 'I’ve got to turn myself in, I’m froze to death.' He was just shaking and everything.”

In a statement provided to The Times, prison officials said Vick had "walked away" from the minimum-security prison where he was serving a six-year sentence for burglary and criminal possession of a forged document.
It wasn't immediately clear why he decided to escape; he was eligible for parole in March. Now, standing on King's doorstep, all he wanted was to go back to prison.