Is cow short for coward?

Six, 700-pound cows stampeded when a chicken from a neighboring farm strutted into their barn in Nuberg, S.C., and started flapping around.

The beefy “milk”-toasts knocked down two sections of fencing – and the neighbor who owns the chickens now faces possible criminal charges for property damage.

Police in Vienna, Austria, alerted to a prison break, found a recently released con on the roof – trying to get back in.

“Life is so much easier on the inside,” said the 23-year-old ex-con. “They feed you, do your washing and let you watch TV – which I can tell you is a lot more than my mom does.”

An Englishman just back from vacation watched in horror as his luggage was crushed in a garbage truck.

Phil Newbon, of Lincolnshire, had dropped his bags on the sidewalk while he stopped to chat with a pal.

When he glanced back, he said, “Everything was being smashed to pieces . . . tags still attached.”

Four British firefighters have been suspended because one took a spin.

Not in a firetruck, but in a clothes dryer in their Manchester firehouse.

While the foolish firefighter tumbled, his buddies taped the action, and later put it on the Internet.

Demonstrators at a peace rally in Sri Lanka, got into a brawl – with Buddhist monks. The saffron-robed monks had mounted the stage to erect banners opposing government concessions to Tamil Tiger rebels.

Witnesses said fists and robes flew.