Her husband shot her pet chicken with a .44-caliber handgun, so she retaliated – by shooting him in the back with a .22-caliber rifle, according to police in Cheshire, Ore.

Mary Kay Gray, 58, is now in jail on a felony assault charge.

Her husband, Stanley, 43, is recovering from a gunshot wound to the shoulder.

The pet chicken is dead.

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When a speed-trap camera caught this guy barreling along, he blew up – the camera.

Craig Moore, a welder from Doncaster, England, used thermite to destroy the police camera.

Unfortunately for him, it didn’t destroy the images the camera had taken of him speeding and returning to attack the camera.

He now faces four months in prison.

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Something to remember next time you hear the pitter-patter of very little feet around the house.

Mice don’t like cheese. In fact, they turn up their noses at anything strong in smell and rich in taste, and prefer foods with a lot of sugar or chocolate.

That’s the word from researchers at England’s Manchester Metropolitan University.

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An Argentine man has gone to court to fight for a vasectomy, which is barred in his hometown of Corrientes.

“I have enough children,” insists Cleto Ruiz Diaz, who at 44 is the father of 37 – with three wives and seven fiancées.

“I need the operation because when I fall in love, I can’t control myself.”

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According to the song, “life is a cabaret.” And love? It’s a cab-array, according to Vujadin Stojkovic of Arandjelovac, Serbia.

He hired a dozen taxi drivers to help him propose to his girlfriend.

He had each driver paint a single letter on his cab to spell out “udaj se za mene” – “marry me” – and then park outside his lady love’s house.

And his “fare” lady said yes.