Here’s why good headline writers are essential.

Parents of students at a predominantly black St. Louis high school were shocked when they received a flier from the school with an essay titled, “Why I Hate Black History Month.”

Organizers said the essay was meant to emphasize learning about black history year round, not just in February, and admitted the headline was not well chosen.

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This guy must have missed a few classes in his better-parenting course.

An Iowa man was charged with trying to motivate his son to play football by giving him steroids. Cops caught on when the 14-year-old went into a rage and beat up his mother.

Investigators found a syringe and 105 pills in the boy’s bedroom.

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He was aiming to be stupid, and was right on target.

Police say a Utah man was pulling up his pants after using a toilet at a Carl’s Jr. restaurant when his pistol fell to the floor and fired, blowing up the toilet and wounding him with shards of flying porcelain.

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These guys are giving lawmen a bad rep.

An Idaho sheriff is in hot water for having inmates share disposable razors. Now officials are conducting blood tests to make sure none of the jailbirds have contracted a blood-borne disease.

And a few weeks ago, an Alabama sheriff was arrested for underfeeding his inmates and pocketing the leftover meal money.

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This birdbrain overreacted.

A man eating ice cream with his wife on Laguna Beach in California beat a bird with a stick after it tried to take a bite. It turned out to be a rare Heerman’s gull that had to be euthanized, and the guy was charged with animal cruelty.