Don’t Smokey near this bear.
Marijuana growers in Canada have been using bears to protect their crops, but the well-fed animals were apparently dazed and confused on the job.
Police discovered the bear guards while dismantling two large outdoor plots of marijuana in British Columbia — and the beasts did little to protect the crops from the cops.
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File this under the department of corrections.
A German bank robber was busted after e-mailing police and two newspapers to point out factual errors in their reports about his heists.
The brazen 19-year-old mocked the police for getting his age, height and accent wrong, and then pointed out he escaped in a car, not on foot.
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Subway trains would be a lot cleaner if the MTA employed this policy.
A man who sprayed graffiti on a train in Singapore was sentenced to two months in prison as well as three strokes of a cane.
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If a goose can bring down a plane, imagine what havoc this bird of prey could cause.
Britain’s air-traffic controllers put pilots on alert after a vulture — which can soar as high as 30,000 feet — escaped from her handlers during a demonstration.
Gandalf, a seven-year-old Ruppell’s vulture, has not been seen since escaping during a performance in Scotland.
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You should find it under “A,” for annoying.
The word “vuvuzela,” the irritating horn that overwhelmed the World Cup in South Africa, has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.
The incessantly humming horn was among 2,000 new words and phrases added to the third edition of the dictionary, which is compiled from an analysis of 2 billion words used in everything from novels to Internet message boards.