A Wisconsin man truly bled for his Green Bay Packers -- and that devotion saved his life. Jim Becker, 79, says that in order to buy Packer season tickets -- and raise 11 kids -- he had to sell...
A Nebraska man showed up so drunk for his DWI sentencing that the judge wouldn't allow it to proceed. Technically, drunken Jason Botos had failed to appear, so the judge issued a warrant for his...
A sweet old guy he isn't. A 68-year-old greeter at an Ohio Wal-Mart was arrested for repeatedly punching little kids. Ralph Conone would sometimes wander up to kids as young as 7 and punch...
These birdies are no fans of birdies. Two African gray parrots that live near the 16th hole of a Florida golf course have learned to screech out some choice phrases they've picked up from...
A 74-year-old Cape Cod woman took an inadvertent ride through a car wash when her clothes got snagged by her vehicle just as it was being pulled inside, sucking her through. Carol Burton-Groman...
And you thought big banks couldn't make you like them less. A Pittsburgh woman is suing the Bank of America, claiming it not only foreclosed on her home, even though she was up to date on her...
cratch off one brain-dead bandit. A Florida man was busted for ripping off $70 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets -- after he returned to the store in Bartow where he stole them, so he could...
Call it a tit-for-tat. A 31-year-old woman was busted for third-degree assault on a cop for allegedly squirting breast milk at her jailer. The woman had been picked up for public intoxication...
This makes driving while texting seem positively safe. Florida police arrested a woman who wrecked her car trying to shave her bikini area as she drove. "She said she was meeting her...
What happened to the separation between church and state? A Michigan court tossed out an assault conviction after the judge in the original case failed to make the jury swear to God to return an...
How does an undertaker have a decline in business? A funeral home in Pittsfield, Mass., is trying to "bring life" back to its trade with a chili cook-off, a murder-mystery show and free limo...
An emu who had apparently escaped from a farmer's truck died after being corralled by police along a highway in Texas. The giant, flightless bird weighing about 150 pounds bit and pecked at cops...
He should be really popular in jail. North Carolina police got involved in a wild, high-speed chase with a man driving a pink Lincoln Mercury Grand Marquis with Hello Kitty vanity plates. ...
Kentucky lawmakers will soon decide whether the pen is mightier than the sword. They're debating whether to sign off on a law that would repeal a frontier-era constitutional provision that...
Maybe Hollywood isn't so movie-friendly. The LA city attorney had Kayvan Setareh, 49, arrested and held in lieu of $1 million bail for allowing a huge ad for the movie "How to Train Your Dragon"...
Chuck E. Cheese, home of wholesome, family fun -- and one outrageously immoral parent. An Indianapolis woman coaxed her 5-year-old daughter into stealing a woman's purse at the kid-friendly...
Volatile mix: Colt .45 and blind rage. The mother of an elementary-school student in Tennessee was busted after guzzling a 40-ounce bottle of malt liquor and charging into the school with a...
Now that's drunk. Police in South Bend, Ind., arrested a man for DWI after other motorists reported he was driving down the road with the hose from a gas pump dangling from his fuel tank. He...
This thief is messing with the wrong guy. An Ohio sheriff is offering a $1,000 reward from his own pocket for info leading to the arrest of whoever burglarized his house. Sheriff Dave Phalen...
That's one way to demolish a relationship. A jealous husband in upstate Lyon, NY, used a backhoe to trash 30 demolition-derby cars because he thought his wife was having an affair with one of...
A Western New York teen has boogied his way into the pokey. Erie County sheriff's deputies busted a drunken 18-year-old after he allegedly caused $3,000 in damage to a home's hardwood floor by...
Help wanted: registered Chicago voter to join the City Council. Salary $110.556. Mayor Richard Daley is interviewing applicants who applied for two positions that he advertised on the city's Web...
City fathers in Tampa have put the brakes on the stripper-mobile. Officials didn't think public sensibilities could handle seeing the moving ad for the Déjà Vu gentlemen's club, in which...
It was Valentine's Day, but there was no love lost between these two. Georgia cops arrested a woman who went to a Waffle House in Pooler on Sunday and allegedly hit her ex-lover in the face with...
And you thought the homeless guy on the train smelled awful. Air Canada Jazz was forced to bounce a passenger because he stunk to high hell. The crew tried to isolate him from the other fliers...
Jesus images have gotten to be a dime a dozen. A bathroom door with a purported image of Jesus got no bids on eBay, even after its seller offered to send half the proceeds to the Haiti...
If it's too risqué for Vegas, it's got to be good. A jiggle joint has relocated its "stripper mobile" to Tampa, Fla., after it was banned from the roads in Las Vegas for being too distracting. ...
A Kentucky man got his just reward for providing information about a burglary -- free room and board at the local lockup. Cops in Clay City said the 20-year-old implicated himself in the crime...
This is one way to be a dog's best friend. A Louisiana man has created a strap-on chastity belt for dogs as an alternative to spaying or neutering puppies. Dexter Blanch says he sees the belt...
Get thee to confession! A Roman Catholic priest was busted for trying to buy coke in Philadelphia. Cops said they saw Father James Shimsky, 50, of the Diocese of Scranton, pull up to a dealer...
Crime doesn't even pay for Netflix subscriptions. An Illinois jail canceled its inmates' group DVD subscription due to budget cuts. Among the viewing picks had been films like "Schindler's...
I love you. Now pass the syrup. The decidedly lowbrow Waffle House will be unfurling the white table cloths for special, reservation-only candlelit dinners on Valentine's Day. "Valentine's at...
This is what you get for having no manners! A Virginia man is suing the Roanoke police, alleging they beat him up in the city jail because he kept belching. Thomas Scott Vandegrift said he...
Sounds like somebody could use a bit of racial-sensitivity training. Asian residents of Atlanta were angered when the city's rail agency renamed the train line that runs though the heart of the...
We love Fido. Twenty percent of adults in a worldwide Reuters survey said they'd rather spend Valentine's Day with their pets than with their human partners. The biggest pet lovers,...
Maybe she was a double agent for PETA. A dog shot her owner while he was duck hunting in Los Banos, Calif. The 53-year-old man was wounded after he put his loaded shotgun on the ground and...
A Brentwood, Calif., man has found a way to keep his prized 1984 Ferrari in his sight -- by parking it in his living room. Problem is, neighbors want to slam the brakes on a 10-foot bridge...
A Rhode Island man was busted for illegally performing a operation on his dog because he couldn't afford to pay a veterinarian. Alan MacQuattie cut into the canine to remove a cyst -- and left...
He went from the doghouse to the big house to the unemployment line. A drunken off-duty Tennessee sheriff's deputy had to be put into a police car's dog cage after he was unable to perform a...
Take two of these and call your lawyer in the morning. A San Francisco man took a double dose of his medical marijuana cookies and freaked out aboard a US Airways jet en route from Philly to LA,...
What were they smoking? Two men were busted in Tennessee for stealing $300 worth of Twinkies from a bakery. Cops caught up to the two by tracking their footprints in the snow. James...
This guy is no rocket scientist. A 62-year-old man from Independence Township, Mich., built an explosive device from a used muffler filled with gunpowder and gasoline. He placed it in his...
When in the course of human events people decide to dance, they better not do it at the Jefferson Memorial. A judge in Washington has ruled against a woman busted for silently dancing in a group...
The FBI definitely wants this senior citizen to quit his day job and retire, preferably into their custody. A 70-something San Diego bank robber dubbed the "The Geezer" has stuck up six...
He's definitely not a finalist for father of the year. A drunken dad in the play area of a Colorado Springs McDonald's ordered his kids to bite the cops arresting him. Ultimately, the...
Some thugs needs heavy weaponry to pull off their heists. Gino Conti needed only a fork. The 31-year-old Pennsylvania man used the kitchen cutlery to hold up a gas station at fork-point Tuesday,...
If a drunk stumbles into you today, you might be able to blame the president -- or at least his speechwriters. Two Princeton students invented the State of the Union drinking game in 2002, and...
One man's trash is another man's treasure. A Florida man who fished a photo of a space shuttle out of the garbage found $3,100 in cash stuffed behind the picture in its broken frame. Warren...
He forgot that you're supposed to cover your mouth while coughing. Cops in Joplin, Mo., busted a man after witnesses reported he swallowed a $20,000 diamond ring he allegedly had stolen. ...
Call it reef madness. A US border inspector thought he smelled something fishy about a truckload of white sea bass headed into San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico. It was a good hunch. ...
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