Hi, Mom, could you give me a ride home? I just tried to rob a liquor store.
Sheriff’s deputies in Okaloosa County, Fla. busted Zachariah Dalton Howard, 22, after he allegedly attempted but failed to knock off a Thumbs-Up Convenience Store and then phoned his mother to pick him up, officials said.
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Pistol-packin’ Belleville, Ill., cops looking for a good meal got lucky — they were banned from Denny’s.
A manager enforcing a no-guns policy at the 24/7 greasy-spoon barred plainclothes officers at the door.
Denny’s officials apologized, saying the policy was meant only for civilians.
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Cops hauled two Rocklin, Calif., girls to juvenile hall for allegedly lacing their parents’ beverages with sleeping pills.
The girls wanted to get around their parents’ rules prohibiting Internet use after 10 p.m., cops said.
The scheming teens brought home sleep-aid-laced milk shakes for their parents, who quickly got woozy and dozed off.
The next day, the couple went to a doctor, who determined they had been drugged.
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A naked Miami man jumped into a neighbor’s yard and began choking a chained Rottweiler, whose owner came out of his house and shot the guy in the foot, police said.
A wild Jeffery Delice, 20, then tried to assault the owner, who held him at bay for cops, authorities said.
Police investigating the attack say Delice has never been convicted of a crime, but last year was charged with pot possession.
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A stray cat in Massachusetts must have used up many of her nine lives after spending a week struck in a tree, then falling 80 feet.
Remarkably, the feline, whom veterinarians named “Fortunate,” is suffering only from pulled muscles and a minor parasitic infection, Marion Animal Hospital officials said.