The 13th step to getting sober has to be: Don’t drive drunk onto the lawn of the AA founder’s house.
A man was busted for DUI after he allegedly drove onto the property of the historic home of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill Wilson in Dorset, Vt.
The house still hosts AA meetings — which suspect Donald Blood may want to think about attending.
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A beloved New Year’s Eve tradition has been turned into roadkill by animal-rights activists — literally.
Brasstown, NC, has ended its “Possum Drop” after protesters from PETA filed a lawsuit against the town’s annual event — and a judge ruled their permit wasn’t valid.
Now, instead of dropping a live possum in a glass box at midnight, the town will drop a dead one, collected from a local highway.
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What a big pussycat.
A bobcat that was rescued during a Northern California wildfire is taking lessons in being ferocious from a group of wildlife-rescue volunteers — because the cat has been declared too nice to be allowed back into the wild.
The bobcat, named Chips, is slowly being trained to be meaner and to attack things like mice, just so it can survive on its own.
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Cattle on one ranch in Texas like nothing more than a big cold one.
Steer on the Texas T Kobe ranch are fattened up by being fed a diet of hay that is soaked in beer.
The beer supposedly makes the beef juicier and more nicely marbled. The beef can cost up to $100 a pound.
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An Orlando man got a shock when he glanced into some woods and spotted an 800-pound gorilla.
The shock only grew when he learned the realistic-looking beast was a life-size, $5,000 bronze statue of a silverback gorilla that someone had dumped in a wooded area after stealing it from a nearby hotel.