The National Toy Museum has inducted the lowly stick into its hallowed halls – in homage to some of the simpler pleasures of youth.

“It’s very open ended, all natural, the perfect price, [and] there aren’t any rules or instructions for use,” said curator Christopher Bensch.

The special addition was inspired by the 2005 induction of the cardboard box.

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This is not a guy you want to bet with on a golf course.

Amateur golfer Curt Hocker nailed five holes in one in just a week at an Illinois course.

“I don’t know what to think,” the 22-year-old said. “After each one, I say it’s over and it keeps happening.”

The club has a policy of buying a round of drinks for the entire clubhouse every time an ace is made.

“I think the golf course is getting mad at me,” he said.

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Give this dog a license.

A pooch left in a car at a carwash slipped the vehicle into gear and drove it out onto an Oklahoma highway and then back into the parking lot – and no one got hurt.

Police impounded the car because the dogged driver could not provide proof of insurance.

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Scooby-Doo must have been on the case.

When a captured South Carolina cat burglar had a sheet he had draped over his head ripped off, his captors discovered he had a mask on underneath it.

Beaufort Police Major Matt Clancy called it “definitively unusual.”

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Here’s another reason why idiots should not be allowed to play with fire.

A Georgia man tried to clear cobwebs from his attic by using a blowtorch but only managed to burn his house down.

Galen Winchell accidentally set the eaves on fire in the process.