Stories 61–90 of 130, newest first.
A Florida man is accused of running Texas livestock past inspection during a screwworm emergency — the flesh-eating parasite those checkpoints exist to catch. The paperwork he allegedly skipped was the entire point of the paperwork.
A Baltimore woman is fighting a $228,000 water bill, and the dispute got worse when the city's public works department admitted its HOA billing was wrong. The meter reads like a mortgage.
A Jupiter man allegedly broke into a neighbor's house at dawn to slice a lime and pour himself her tequila, a towel wrapped around his head. He lives just down the street; a Ring camera caught him trying the front door first, six-pack in hand.
A Mesa couple put up a backyard sunshade to survive an Arizona summer and drew a $50 HOA fine for skipping the paperwork. Now the city's zoning code has opinions about it too.
A woman cut her waffle into chips, mixed the syrup into the butter container, and dipped them like nachos. Four Waffle House employees — people who have seen everything — stopped working to come watch.
A Florida man allegedly rerouted seven former co-workers' paychecks into his own account. It is a bold way to stay on the payroll of a job you no longer have.
One man's abandoned boats have cost Florida more than $370,000 to pull out of the water. Thirteen investigations and 24 unpaid citations later, the state got around to arresting him.
A Florida man barricaded himself inside an RV in a New Jersey Walmart parking lot, reportedly with a flamethrower for company. Crisis negotiators worked him for sixteen hours before police settled it with pepper spray.
Unable to start the stolen Porsche, the thief simply strapped it to a pickup and towed it off. LAPD chased the truck across North Hollywood while the driverless Porsche scraped along behind, until the strap snapped and it coasted to a stop outside a car wash.
A Daytona Beach man ran from his own crash, then warned the officers asking for his ID that they were going to get sued. The roadside sobriety test went about as well as the headline suggests.
A neighbor talked the HOA into branding a backyard vegetable garden an illegal 'farm.' The complaint collapsed the moment the board learned the harvest had been going, free, to elderly neighbors all summer.
After a Boise fender-bender, the driver was filmed sprinting to a storm drain to stuff something down it. A police officer later recognized the viral clip online, checked the drain, and recovered the meth he'd hidden.
A Florida man turned up nude behind a New Smyrna Beach Circle K with no explanation on file. No word on what he came to buy, or why it required taking everything off.
A Florida man allegedly buried malware in Steam games and drained $220,000 in crypto across 8,000 devices. The FBI unraveled it by following the stolen Bitcoin to his Uber Eats orders.
A Seattle raccoon named Jimothy went viral for a shortened spine that makes him almost perfectly round. The city didn't adopt a mascot so much as quietly surrender to one.
YouTube is being sued over the Premium tier it sold as ad-free with 'no interruptions.' The complaint is that the interruptions kept coming anyway.
A Florida man repaid a deputy's courtesy — cuffs moved to the front for his sore shoulder — by yanking a fake-urine rig out of his pants and flinging it across the patrol car. It was, the sheriff noted, his second bad decision of the day.
A police chase in Malibu ended the only way California allows — the suspect bailing out and swimming off the coast. Deputies, as a rule, do not follow into the Pacific.
A city council is weighing a permit system for the goats brought in to eat the brush. Somewhere a new form now exists for livestock landscaping.
A Florida man is accused of helping himself to an ambulance straight out of a Jacksonville fire station. It's one way to get somewhere fast without the copay.
An influencer inherited a home in a Jacksonville 55-plus community, and the HOA is suing to keep her out. The bylaws, it turns out, outrank the will.
A Florida man tried to move a protected hawksbill sea turtle shell on Facebook Marketplace for $2,700. The 'rare, perfect condition' listing doubled as the state's evidence.
A hammer-wielding Florida man refused to drop it until a police drone talked deputies onto him. Cuffed at last, he offered the arrest a warm 'I love y'all.'
A Central Florida man was booked again for playing nurse without the license — or the training. "Again" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Pulled over, a Florida man tried the classic move of switching seats so it wouldn't look like he'd been driving. Mid-shuffle the car slipped into gear and rolled into the deputy's cruiser, settling the question of who was in control.
He had no bar card, no firm, and no case — just the unshakable confidence of a man who decided to represent himself on the shoulder of the highway. The deputies, it turns out, were not persuaded by opposing counsel.
A man kept a cooler in his own driveway, and his HOA responded with fines, because nothing threatens property values quite like accessible cold beverages. The cooler stays put; the citations keep arriving.
Nothing says peace on earth quite like a homeowners association citation for displaying too much holiday cheer. The lights stayed up, the neighbors stayed festive, and the invoice stayed firmly in the mailbox.
He was arrested for a fresh burglary while on his way to court to answer for a previous one, which is at least thematically consistent. Time management is hard, but he did technically make both appointments.
Five hundred dollars a day, indefinitely, over a single door the homeowners association had not personally signed off on. It ultimately took a brand-new state law to switch the meter off.