Accidentally

A 35-year-old West Baltimore man accidentally shot himself in the right knee Thursday night and was arrested for possessing an illegal weapon, according to city police. Tyrone Bailey was attempting to remove the gun from his pants pocket when it discharged once in the 1800 block of Presstman St. at about 8 p.m., police said. Bailey was transported by an illegal taxi driver to an area hospital, where police took a report of the incident, a department spokesman said. Bailey was released from the hospital and taken into custody.

The Kitsap County (Washington) coroner said Tony Fein , who was a member of the Ravens during the preseason, died of an accidental drug overdose. Coroner Greg Sandstrom said Wednesday that toxicology tests showed "acute opiate [morphine] intoxication" with the added effect of Alprazolam, a drug used to treat anxiety. Sandstrom says Fein also vomited and aspirated that material. Fein collapsed Oct. 6 at a friend's house near Port Orchard and died at Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton.

Only in hindsight did it strike anyone as odd: Carrie John never seemed to invite friends and neighbors into her Ridgely's Delight rowhouse. Instead, she would meet friends out, or people would watch from the corner to make sure she got in after a night at the bar. "None of us ever went inside," said a friend, Julie Della-Maria. The reason might have been the "huge gardens" of marijuana and assorted pills that police found on the day John, a 29-year-old drug abuse researcher, died after injecting what she thought was a narcotic.

A man was killed early Sunday morning in what police are calling an accidental shooting in the 400 block of S. Glover St. Police do not have a positive identification of the man, who was driven by a friend to Bayview Medical Center, where he died, city police spokesman Donny Moses said. The victim, who as of last night had not been identified, was with two of his friends when a gun went off and the man was shot in the side, Moses said. Police arrested the friend they believe fired the gun, Moses said.

No dumbo celebs being celebrated here. Just dumbo regular folk. The black comedy The Darwin Awards is a 2006 film with Joseph Fiennes, Winona Ryder and Josh Charles that was inspired by the cult Web site of the same name, which chronicles "the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways." Endless sick humor at darwinawards.com. (9:35 p.m, Showtime) Feeding frenzy:: Tonight the folks at The Office get some good news, but they still find a way to make a mess of things.

THE PROBLEM // A broken pipe in Robert E. Lee Park caused water to pour down a path for more than a week. THE BACKSTORY // Daniel Pugatsky, who walks his dog in Robert E. Lee Park, noticed water pouring out of a crack in a path just past the footbridge near the dam. The Pikesville resident talked to friends who go there daily and learned it had been draining that way for at least three to four days. In late June, he called Baltimore's 311 system from the park to report the problem. "I said, 'Well, if nobody's fixing it, then maybe nobody knows about it,'" Pugatsky said.

Deon Oneil Henry Jr. had the summer off as a health education teacher, so he decided to take a job working with 38 low-income high school students in an Upward Bound program. One of nine counselors in the program, Henry, 25, helped expose students to what life could be like for them in college. His days were filled with teaching and recreation sessions, including swims at the indoor pool at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where the program was based for the summer. But during one of those recreation sessions Wednesday night, Henry died in what authorities preliminarily believe was an accidental drowning.

JERUSALEM - A large explosion destroyed a residential building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya yesterday, killing at least five Palestinians, among them several Hamas militants and a baby girl. Hamas, the Islamic group that controls Gaza, initially blamed an Israeli airstrike for the blast, and it unleashed a hail of rockets and mortar rounds at Israeli towns near the Gaza border. But the Israeli military denied any involvement in the explosion, saying that it had not been active in the area at the time.

An undercover narcotics officer was getting out of an unmarked car with his gun drawn when the weapon accidentally fired and a single bullet struck two teenagers Monday in a Howard County neighborhood, police said yesterday. County police said the department's internal affairs division is investigating the shooting, which stemmed from suspicion of drug activity just before 5:20 p.m. in the 8300 block of Pleasant Chase Road in Jessup. "During the process of exiting the vehicle, the gun fired," Sherry Llewellyn, a police spokeswoman, said during a news conference yesterday at police headquarters in Ellicott City.

Picture yourself at the cash register at Best Buy, about to plunk down the plastic for a flat-screen television, when the salesperson asks if you want what amounts to an extended warranty. It's a tough question to answer and one that many of us hear often. You have little time to make a decision. And you may be reluctant to spend another couple of hundred dollars on an already pricey item for insurance you hope you'll never need. But you also worry that if it breaks, it could cost you even more to fix or replace it. Whether you're purchasing a television or a washing machine, you often have the option of buying an extended warranty, which often are called service or protection plans.