The cops were saps.
With guns drawn, officers in Union County, Ill., raided a family farm after neighbors called in a tip that a meth lab was there.
Cops rushed in, saw taps and sap-collection buckets on trees and realized they were just cooking up sweets.
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A 10-year-old bull terrier named Baby saved his family from a raging fire in Wellston, Okla., by barking wildly when he smelled smoke.
The plucky pooch even went back into the burning building and pulled young pups to safety by the scruffs of their necks.
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Hey, it beats studying.
Undergrads at Johns Hopkins University each got an A on their computer-science final — by boycotting it.
Because their professor grades on a curve and gives an A only to the highest grade, no one answered any question and all got a zero, thus everyone tied for the “highest” grade and got an A.
The prof subsequently changed his rule, which now says that if everyone gets the exact same score, everyone gets an F.
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He speaks with forked tongue.
A Georgia man was charged with lying to authorities for claiming that he had been bitten by a highly venomous black mamba snake.
The man’s claim led to a massive hunt for the deadly serpent. But it was determined he had been bitten by a less venomous cobra, which he still claimed made him delirious.
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Forget the Soup Nazi; Japan now has its Salmon Roe Nazi.
A sushi chef has become famous by serving fish eggs with a huge helping of attitude.
The dish is served over rice — but if you touch the rice before the roe is poured on by a waiter, your right to eat is revoked!
Then, if you fail to finish the dish, you are hit with a final penalty — for dishonoring the fishermen and restaurant preparers.