Wanted Man Climbs 80-Foot Tree To Escape Police, Triggers 8-Hour Standoff A wanted man in Washington state went full Tarzan in an attempt to escape the long arm of the law by climbing 80 feet up a cedar tree. Deputies in Port Townsend were trying to arrest the man, who had an active Department of Corrections escape war...

Fart Puts the "Ass" in Assault: PA Man Attacks Elderly Farter at Plasma Center A far turned into a beatdown at a CSL Plasma center in Pennsylvania after an elderly man let one rip - and a fellow customer didn't take it lightly. According to police, Chazz Pearson, 39, was waiting in line at the East End Centre...

Colorado Man Sues Rockies Over Foul Ball and Blames Team's Bad Record for His Lack of Attention A Colorado man is suing the Colorado Rockies for injuries he says he suffered after being nailed in the face by a foul ball - and he's partially blaming the team's terrible record for it. Timothy Roeckel filed the lawsuit in...

Bacteria Never Seen on Earth Found Aboard China's Space Station In a plot twist straight out of a sci-fi movie, Chinese astronauts have discovered a previously unknown form of bacteria lurking inside the Tiangong space station, and it doesn't exist on Earth. The unidentified microbe was found after scientists analyzed ...

Porch Pirate Steals $1,200 Doctoral Regalia... Then Brings It Back A porch pirate with a PhD in guilt? That might be the case in Southwest D.C., where a package thief actually returned a stolen doctoral cap and gown, a rare plot twist even police say they've never seen before. Dr. Leah Carrington-Boney had just receive...

Mexican Navy Tall Ship Slams Into Brooklyn Bridge After Power Failure, Leaving 2 Dead and 17 Injured A scenic send-off turned tragic Saturday night when a Mexican navy tall ship, the Cuauhtémoc, lost power and crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge, killing two people and injuring 17 others, including four critically....

Flying Burrito Sparks Road Rage in Texas A burrito bomb may have been the most Texas way possible to start a road rage incident that ended with one man in jail and two terrified grandkids caught in the crossfire. It all went down in the parking lot of a Dollar Tree (of course it did) when Arturo Villareal was in his ca...

Florida Man Clings to a Fridge in the Back of a Pickup Truck Just when you thought you'd seen every flavor of Florida Man, here comes a guy who said, "Forget bungee cords, I got this." A video that's quickly going viral shows a Florida man clinging to a refrigerator in the bed of a moving pickup truck, with t...

Nebraska Man Goes Full Sith, Attacks Neighbor and Child with Lightsaber Over Thermostat Drama A Nebraska man clearly took his Star Wars fandom a little too seriously. He's now facing two felonies after allegedly using a metal lightsaber replica to attack his neighbor and her 7-year-old daughter during a heated dispute ...

ROAD RAGE RATCHET: Florida Man Hurls Socket Wrench Through Car Window, Hits Ex and Smashes Victim's Phone A Florida man took road rage to socket-wrench levels when he allegedly attacked his ex-girlfriend and another driver with a metal ratchet, smashing a car window and a cellphone in the process. Albert Guillen-Garcia...

Kansas Man Steals 800-Pound Cannon to Pay Off Meth Debt, Cuts It Into Pieces Like It's Scrap Metal If you've ever wondered what bad idea looks like, meet Gordon Pierce III, a Kansas man who thought an 800-pound historical cannon was the answer to his $20,000 meth debt. Pierce, a 20-year meth user, told police his drug ...

Florida Man Claims to Be Charles Dickens While Drunk, Pantsless, and Holding Wine A pantsless man with a flair for fiction was arrested this week after allegedly parading around a parking lot in nothing but a T-shirt, two bottles of wine, a can of beer, and one very bold lie. When police arrived around 2 a.m. Wednesday...

Ohio Traffic Stop Turns Fuzzy and Felonious: Pet Raccoon Found Holding Meth Pipe In a scene straight out of a backwoods buddy comedy, Ohio police discovered a pet raccoon clutching a meth pipe during a routine traffic stop Monday evening. Officer Austin Branham pulled over 55-year-old Victoria Vidal in Springfield Town...

Man Mauled by Crocodile After Jumping Zoo Fence to Take Selfie With "Fake" Animal A 29-year-old tourist learned the hard way that crocodiles at zoos are not props after he climbed into an enclosure at the Kabug Island Mangrove and Wetlands Park-only to be death rolled by a very real and very unimpressed croc ...

Powerball Winner's Luck Runs Out After Beach Resort Brawl in Florida Just days after winning Kentucky's largest Powerball jackpot ever, James Farthing's dream vacation turned into a criminal nightmare. The 50-year-old Georgetown native, who recently split a $167.3 million Powerball prize with his mother, Linda Grizzle,...

Florida Police Hunt Tricycle Thief In Tiger-Print Onesie The DeSoto County Sheriff's Office is hot on the trail of a suspect who allegedly stole an adult tricycle while dressed in what might be the most Florida outfit of all time: a tiger-print onesie. The alleged thief, Emily Hesters, was captured on a doorbell cam cr...

Geriatric RAGE: 88-Year-Old Florida Woman Hits Scooter-Bound Senior, Drives Off Florida's senior showdown hit a new level after an 88-year-old woman was arrested for fleeing the scene of a crash that injured another senior citizen - this one 77 years old and on a mobility scooter. The wild parking lot collision happene...

Florida Man Offers Deputies a Vodka Spritzer During Car Chase, Asks "You Guys Had Fun Though, Right?" In what might be the most on-brand "Florida Man" moment of the year so far, Richard Christopher Smith attempted to turn a police chase into a happy hour on wheels. The 49-year-old was pursued by dep...

Mother Arrested After Giving Vodka Jell-O Shots to 5th Graders at School Holiday Party A mother is behind bars after what was supposed to be a sweet holiday treat turned into a shocking and dangerous school incident. Teresa Bernal is facing a felony charge of injury to a child after allegedly distributing vodka-laced J...

It's Science! Cat Buttholes Don't Touch Every Surface In Your Home A science fair project from Kaeden Henry (a 6th Grader at the time) gave us the answer to a question no one asked out loud but everyone has secretly wondered: "Does your cat's butthole touch every surface in your home?" Spoiler alert - no, it...