I woke up Sunday morning to find that my story about the court hearing that resulted in Mike Buntenbah’s being ordered to forfeit his $250,000 bond was in the #1 spot on Civil Beat’s list of its ten “Most Popular” stories (“A Bar Fight Could Cost A Former Miske Co-Defendant His Kaneohe Home“).

The story was posted early Thursday morning, not long after midnight Hawaii time. It quickly rose to the #1 spot and held there for a while before started to slide down the rankings through the day on Friday. By sometime Saturday afternoon, when I last looked, it was about to drop out of the Top 10.

Bouncing back to #1 like this, several days after the story was published, is out of the ordinary. Stories usually have a relatively short shelf-life of just one to three days before the next wave of news sweeps in and replaces them.

By the looks of it, a link to the story must have been picked up and published somewhere by someone with a following that gave it a new “bounce,” although I don’t see anything in the stats on this blog indicating any new source of referrals.

For now, it’s just an enjoyable little mystery.