Tennessee cops busted a couple for allegedly cooking drugs at a Motel 8 in Caryville after other guests complained of smelling noxious fumes.
The guy answered the knock of officers, who immediately spotted meth-lab equipment.
They then found the alleged cohort under the bed.
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A Georgia judge has appointed a legal eagle to defend a pit bull that reportedly attacked a neighbor’s 5-year-old child.
The pooch’s owner surrendered his pet to Effingham County after it was accused of injuring the child.
Pro-bono attorney Claude Kicklighter will defend the canine at a doggy-death-penalty hearing.
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He’s feeding the needy with gourmet road kill.
Redneck cook Jeff Eberbaugh is launching a road-kill hot line in Charleston, W.Va., to put street meat in the refrigerators of the poor.
Eberbaugh, the author of “Gourmet Style Road Kill Cooking and Other Fine Recipes,” says car-smacked deer are as good as venison donated by hunters.
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A food-plant worker died after being cooked to death in an oven.
California authorities are investigating the death of a 62-year-old worker, whose body was found in a Bumble Bee plant in Santa Fe Springs.
It’s unclear how the six-year employee ended up in the industrial steamer, but officials say it was likely a freak accident.
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A German partygoer was reunited with his car two years after forgetting where he had parked it.
After a wild night in 2010, the 33-year-old handyman couldn’t find his vehicle and reported it missing to Munich police.
Authorities found the car last month after a traffic cop noticed its expired registration stickers. The car was two miles from where the man thought he parked — and still had $50,000 worth of power tools in the trunk.