By TODD VENEZIA, Wire Services
May 25, 2008
A 73-year-old Fort Worth woman wound up shot after she got into an argument with her son because she wouldn't stop walking around the house naked, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Mom Bertha McElry finally got out her gun. As she was loading it, she wound up shooting herself in the finger.
Jail time apparently didn't do any good for Shawn Allen Linberg.
After spending a night behind bars for slashing a judge's tires, the 18-year-old walked out of the county lockup in Philipsburg, Pa., strolled across the street and stole a car from a bowling alley parking lot. He was soon caught, and held on $500,000 bail.
A Cambodian man proved that children don't make good balloons after he stuck an air hose in his 5-year-old son's rear and tried to inflate him.
The auto mechanic said he was just playing a game when he jammed a nozzle where the sun don't shine.
The boy wound up hospitalized, but he is expected to make a full recovery.
England's safety-conscious nanny state has reached new heights.
Officials in one town now have decided to cut down a 50-foot, 150-year-old pine tree on the village green because its needles are as sharp as "syringes" and thus too dangerous for kids.
"Every effort must be made to prevent children coming into contact with these potentially equally sharp needles," said a report commissioned by the town that prompted the decision to chop.
After being locked up on an assault charge, Blacky the donkey has been freed from a Mexican jail.
The bad-boy burro was behind bars for three days after biting and kicking two men at a ranch in Chiapas state.
Cops let the donkey out when his owner paid a $500 fine to cover the victims' medical bills and compensate for lost wages.
