Weird News

PARIS (AP) -- When Paris police officers found a lion cub in a Lamborghini during a traffic stop this week, they exposed the tip of what animal campaigners say is a bizarre and disturbing new trend: People buying or renting cubs to take bling-bling selfie photos of themselves with a baby big cat.

SYDNEY (AP) -- It wasn't grand theft. It was tiny.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. (AP) -- After all else failed, National Grid is bringing in a cannon to scare away the hundreds of crows that have been hanging around an electrical substation in Massachusetts.

HOWELL, N.J. (AP) -- Police are praising a woman for avoiding tragedy after a deer crashed through her windshield and landed in the back passenger seat of her SUV.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- A Romanian man was surprised to find 95,000 euros ($107,000) stashed inside a secondhand cupboard he'd bought -- and promptly returned the money.

WESTTOWN, N.Y. (AP) -- An elephant that was burned by napalm during the Vietnam War has been returned to an upstate New York animal sanctuary after taking a late-night stroll.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A Minnesota baby girl was born on Veterans Day -- the 11th day of the 11th month -- at 11:11 p.m.

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- A Maine animal control officer had been on a mission to find a loose chicken when he decided to whack a few branches, exposing a black fowl lurking below.

DAVIE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida authorities have caught a huge lizard that has terrified residents of a suburban Miami neighborhood for months.

UTRECHT, Netherlands (AP) -- Self-styled positivity guru Emile Ratelband thinks age is just a number. And his is a number the Dutchman wants changed.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island elections officials say one polling place in Providence did not see a single voter during the midterm elections this week.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- A North Carolina animal shelter says the close bond between a donkey and an emu that can barely stand to be separated may complicate an adoption.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri landlord stumbled upon an unwanted house guest while evicting a tenant: a large alligator in a hot tub.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Despite being labeled a "devotee of Bigfoot erotica," a Republican candidate won a closely watched congressional race in Virginia.

BROOKLYN, Ohio (AP) -- Police say an 11-year-old boy in Ohio led officers on his second high-speed police chase in 13 months, this time after his mother took away a video game console.

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) -- Charges are pending against a 23-year-old woman who police say got into a police car and tried to drive away in northeast North Dakota.

BERLIN (AP) -- The portable toilets kept on disappearing -- and now a German company knows why.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- A pack llama that escaped from a guided hike in southern Yellowstone National Park in August was rescued by a Montana outfitter last weekend, just days before most of the park's entrances were to close for winter preparations.

LAKE GROVE, N.Y. (AP) -- A New York family says they've found human bones beneath their basement, and they believe the remains are those of their patriarch who disappeared half a century ago.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- A Goodwill worker collecting clothes and other items at a Texas sorting center was surprised to find an albino python clinging to the side of a bin.