Stories 31–60 of 130, newest first.
A Richmond doctor woke at 6 a.m. dreaming that a field mouse was crawling into her mouth, then found the dream was a bat and it was real. She folded its wings back with her bare hand; it later tested negative for rabies.
An 83-year-old was arrested for helping himself to saw palmetto berries he had no permit to pick. In Florida the shrub is protected enough that berry-picking is a felony.
A resort island property owners association fined a man for the things he wrote about them online. He is now suing, which is unlikely to improve his standing with the board.
A bear wandered up to a Los Angeles home and was promptly run off by a coyote roughly a fifth its size. The footage settles nothing about the food chain.
A deputy pulled over a red riding lawn mower on a public road because it was not, in any legal sense, a vehicle. The bag between the driver's feet turned out to hold meth, pills, and weed.
A Michigan man was fined $15,000 for docking boats at his own property. His attorney's characterization of the penalty is not printable in a family publication.
For years, drivers beat the time limit by rolling forward a few inches to reset the clock. The city has now written an ordinance specifically to end the shuffle.
A golden retriever bolted on Christmas Day near Lake Tahoe and spent 72 days in the mountains before a shelter scanned his microchip. Thin but unhurt, he came home and then won a national award for it.
Belton officers were dispatched to a lemur at large and described the suspect as fast, furry, and refusing to cooperate. He was detained and returned to his owner, because Texas lets you keep one of these.
A disabled Navy veteran says her HOA's charges kept appearing and vanishing while she sat locked out of the resident portal for ten months. She sold the condo and is now suing; the association denies everything.
A Tampa man sank a miniature basketball from 102 feet — longer than a full court — to break the world record he already held. He trained for this at Pop-a-Shot.
Officers spotted a suspiciously large lump in the middle of a mattress and lifted it to find their wanted man underneath. He immediately started yelling for his mother, who came running and made the situation considerably worse.
A deputy clocked him at 117 in a 70 on I-95, and he explained he was racing to the bathroom at Buc-ee's — 60 miles away. The sheriff allowed that the bathrooms are exceptionally clean, but suggested picking one closer than an hour out.
A deputy clocked him at 117 in a 70 on I-95, and he explained he was racing to the bathroom at Buc-ee's — 60 miles away. The sheriff allowed that the bathrooms are exceptionally clean, but suggested picking one closer than an hour out.
A 75-year-old Florida man visiting family in Michigan kept up his Fantasy 5 habit at a gas station there and hit for $358,104. He is using it to buy a house in Michigan and leave Florida behind.
A lawsuit has left homeowners in the Horn Rapids community stuck in limbo while their HOA fights it out. Nobody who bought a house there signed up to be a party to litigation.
Harvesting saw palmetto berries without a state permit is a third-degree felony in Florida, punishable by up to five years. A Florida man is now finding that out over a load of berries.
An Indiana man is accused of breaking into a Taco Bell after hours. Whatever he was after, the restaurant is open most of the day and takes cash.
A man stood outside a Lexington church quietly polishing a powder horn, and the police response escalated accordingly. In the town where the Revolution started, this is arguably just a hobby.
A Florida man climbed a barbed-wire fence, went up the maintenance stairs, let himself in an unlocked door of a parked JetBlue jet, and fell asleep in the restroom. The crew found him there the next morning when they went to move the plane.
A Maryland woman was fined for setting out raw meat in her backyard for the vultures. Feeding the neighborhood is a virtue right up until the neighborhood is vultures.
A Hollywood steakhouse now runs a clothing-optional dinner on the first Monday of every month, at $150 to $300 a seat. The city confirms it is legal, the staff stay dressed, and management stresses there is to be no touchy-feely stuff.
A 77-year-old St. Petersburg retiree taped a DOWN WITH FLOCK CAMERAS sign to a 12-foot pool skimmer, set up a lawn chair beneath the surveillance pole, and blocked the lens without touching it. Police confirmed there is nothing illegal about any of it.
A four-foot alligator turned up at 2 a.m. on a downtown Jeffersonville street and settled in at the front windows of a law office. Police already knew the owner — the gator has escaped before.
A Florida man flushed his cocaine down the toilet as officers arrived, which he clearly believed would settle the matter. Police arrested him anyway.
Deputies found their boat-burglary suspect in a full Superman costume, cape included, and he promptly confessed to taking three power tools. The Man of Steel posted $5,500 bond.
The man deputies were hunting as the 'tequila bandit' — thousands of dollars in liquor stuffed into a backpack — was picked up before they could get to him. He had been pulled over in the next county for driving under the influence.
A Florida man is accused of walking out of Fanatics Fest in Manhattan with $17,000 in trading cards. He traveled a long way to be the guy who ruins a card show.
A deer let itself into Hersheypark and wandered the midway among the visitors. It did not, as far as anyone reported, get in line for anything.
Dade City officers spent a morning running down an emu that had decided it was a fine day for a stroll through town. The department conceded that chasing an emu was not covered at the academy, then posted photos of the bird riding in a patrol car.