Two South Carolina correction officers-turned-criminals have been charged with stealing a cow from a prison farm, authorities said.

Officers Robert Kent Summersett and Carl Ray Watford Jr. allegedly took the $1,000 beef cow from the Wateree Correctional Institution where they work.

The prison has a 7,000-acre farm, a dairy, egg-laying and beef cattle operations.

The officers are charged with larceny of livestock.

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Talk about a misdial.

A 14-year-old Florida boy accidentally called an off-duty detective and offered to sell him an ounce of pot and crack cocaine, police said.

The detective agreed to meet with the Gulfport teen in the parking lot of a school. When the kid showed up, he was charged with possession with intent to sell within 1,000 feet of a school.

The 22-year-old driver who allegedly brought the teen to the rendevous was also charged.

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This is one way to handle a spouse with a wandering eye.

A Scranton, Pa., man shot his wife’s computer after he found her chatting with men online. Jason Griffith fired a single .40-caliber shot into his wife’s computer tower. No one was hurt.

Griffith was charged with reckless endangerment and other charges and held in lieu of $50,000 bail.

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That’s one hardy whale.

Fishermen in Alaska discovered a fragment of a weapon used by whalers in the 1880s embedded in the flesh of a massive bowhead whale, suggesting it could be more than 100 years old.

Alaska’s Inupiat people found the fragment – from a bomb lance manufactured in 1880 – during a traditional subsistence hunt.

Wildlife officials say they believe the whale could be 130 years old.

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Pepsi has unveiled a cucumber-flavored soda for the hot summer months in Japan.

“We wanted a flavor that makes people think of keeping cool in the summer heat,” said Aya Takemoto, a spokeswoman for the soda’s distributor.

“We thought the cucumber was just perfect.”