They should really issue a warning label.

Last week we reported that a cop discovered the hard way that a Taser did nothing to stop a 400-pound wild boar, but now a Texas cop has found it won’t even stop a raccoon.

The raccoon had torn up a woman’s living room and when cops zapped it with 50,000 volts, it ran to freedom up the chimney – with the wires still stuck in its back.

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Even the dead aren’t immune from the credit crisis.

Five bodies and the cremated remains of 22 people were evicted from a Pontiac, Mich., funeral home after the bank foreclosed on it.

The remains were sent to the county Medical Examiner’s Office.

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The infamous Darwin Awards were invented with these guys in mind.

Three Colorado teens were badly burned after they huffed aerosol fumes in a car and then lit a cigarette.

The fire set the fumes alight and filled the vehicle with searing flames, as well as blowing out the car’s windows, sun roof and doors.

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In the battle between man and nature, it’s checkmate, nature!

An aggressive deer in Butte, Mont., roughed up a 61-year-old woman who had leaped to the defense of her poodle.

The angry doe rammed Carol Lince and pushed her into a fence. The deer relented when Lince began pummeling it with her fists.

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Eight Scottish firefighters toiled for nine days tearing apart a family’s house in a bid to rescue a 6-year-old girl’s runaway hamster.

They tried to coax it out with chocolate and a vacuum cleaner with a sock over the nozzle. They even tore up the pipes. In the end, the hamster came out when it got hungry.