It will soon be open seasoning for recreational hunters.

A Chaska, Minn., man has developed shotgun shells with seasoned pellets that dissolve on contact and flavor game meat for cooking.

Brett Holm says he will start out offering lemon pepper, Mesquite, Mexican and Creole flavors, but has other seasonings in the works.

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It was truly a bolt from the blue.

And it sounded like a “very, very loud” bomb when it landed on Angelo Margiotta’s roof in a Sydney, Australia, suburb.

Firefighters sent to the scene found a six-inch-long stainless steel bolt – apparently from a passing airliner – lodged in Margiotta’s ceiling.

Officials are trying to track down the jet.

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A retired Brazilian nurse shot a purse snatcher and faces trial for illegal gun possession – but that didn’t stop legislators in Rio de Janeiro from honoring her for “exceptional service” to the crime-ridden city.

The vote to give the 67-year-old grandmother a medal of merit was unanimous, despite police complaints that it would set a bad example.

The gun-toting retiree – the victim of three previous purse snatchings – shot her assailant in the hand with a .38-caliber revolver when he tried to grab her cellphone and handbag.

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A panda cub in Southwest China apparently mistook an American visitor for a bamboo shoot.

The cub bit off part of the woman’s thumb while she fed the beast at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Sichuan province.

The 50-year-old woman, identified only as Lisa, lost 20 percent of her thumb.

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Apparently there are no R. Kelly fans at the Vienna national opera.

After public uproar, urinals shaped like an open set of red female lips are being removed from a public toilet near the opera house.

“We think that it’s tasteless, misogynistic and offensive,” said Marianne Lackner, of the Vienna Department of Women’s Affairs.