SARASOTA, Florida — According to police, Reliford Cooper III, 26, was arrested in Manatee County after a deputy saw him speeding. The deputy attempted to pull Cooper over, but he took off, swerving into oncoming traffic, driving into two ditches. The car eventually stopped when he ran into a house.

A Manhattan woman is suing her 12-year-old nephew after he jumped into her arms welcoming her to his eighth birthday party. Jennifer Connell, the aunt, claims her nephew acted unreasonably as his exuberant welcoming went too far, knocking her to the ground and breaking her wrist back in 2011. Connell

MOULTRIE, Georgia — Jared Fournier walked into American Pawn yesterday and tried to pawn an old Sega Genesis for $700 telling the clerk it was “special” and “worth more than just a regular one.” When workers checked the console, they found a bag of crystal meth inside the game cartridge

NORTH CAROLINA — A North Carolina woman said she has now found true happiness after fulfilling a lifelong dream of becoming blind. Jewel Shuping, 30, apparently has something called Body Integrity Identity Disorder which causes able-bodied people to believe they are meant to be disabled. Same sort of thing as

Several great Florida Man misadventures this week. We started with the 91-year-old man who shot at landscapers for getting grass on his car. Now we have this one. Jason Tackett, 38, tried suffocating his live-in girlfriend after he caught her reading her ex-boyfriend’s obituary. The couple, who have only been

SANTA MONICA — Saffron Jones is taking a street psychic to court for making “horrible predictions” that she says changed her life forever. Jones found the street psychic, Monica Star, on Santa Monica Pier seven months ago and paid her $3 for what she thought would be a fun and positive

Chuck’s Place, a restaurant in Thiensville, Wisconsin, got more than they bargained for when a 350 pound man, Bill Wisth, ate all their fish. Wisth ordered the bottomless fish fry on a Friday night and was given about 20 pieces of fish before finally being told they were out. Wisth

Firefighters were called out to a field in Northamptonshire, England after a cow got its head stuck in a green lawn chair. “Not a clever mooooove,” one Twitter user said. “I’m not sure why it did it,” the cow’s owner said. “It’s never wedged its head in an lawn chair before. It’s

LOS ANGELES, CA — A Lake Elisnore man decided it would be a good idea to wrap a 4-foot-long rattlesnake around his neck and take selfies with it. 36-year-old Alex Gomez found the poisonous snake when he was walking around a field behind his home. “I was taking it off

DANBURY, Connecticut — NBC New York reported that a 77-year-old man was pushing a shopping cart holding cans and bottles down a street when he was grabbed from behind in a ‘bear hug’ and thrown into a white van. The kidnapper, David Pope, took the man to his house, tied