These tigers are looking to replace the bald eagle.
Two of the big cats at a zoo in Tampa, Fla., showed they were Yankee Doodle Dandies when they produced a set of patriotic red, white and blue paintings with their tails and paws.
The works looked like abstract art and were set to be auctioned off to support the Big Cat Rescue center where they live.
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A woman accidentally gave the most generous donation to charity possible — herself.
She was forced to call 911 from inside a parking-lot clothes-donation bin in Oklahoma City after she entered it and got stuck.
The foolish philanthropist got trapped when she crawled inside the bin to retrieve a bracelet.
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Cops caught a suspected rapist in Springfield, Mass., when he chased his victim — to a police station.
Samuel Aponte, 36, followed the woman when she tried to run from him, but he didn’t realize the building she entered was a police headquarters.
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A high-school gym teacher in a town near Dallas gave new meaning to the term school uniform.
Dale Irby has become locally famous for wearing the exact same clothes in his yearbook photo every year for the past 40 years.
Irby told reporters that he was at first embarrassed in 1974 — the second year of his streak — when he realized he had worn the same tan outfit from the previous year. But then, he just decided to make it a tradition.
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Here’s a case where the cops are the ones who got buss-ted.
A Bradenton, Fla., woman was arrested after placing a kiss on a cop’s nose while struggling with them as they tried to nab her for, of all things, theft of livestock.
The woman, Peggy Hill — just like the mother in “King of the Hill” — said she gave the cops the “smack” when the “thought just popped into her head.”