A man who organized a “flash mob” pillow fight in Vermont has been charged with disorderly conduct.

Darin Cassler, 21, planned the event and blew a whistle to start the fight in a Burlington mall as part of a fad where people suddenly appear in a public place and do something stupid.

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Officials in Rumford, Maine, are having a cow over a bizarre problem.

They’re trying to figure out what to do with the bloated carcass of a cow that floated down a river in town and has been lying on rocks 100 feet from shore for three weeks.

Police worry about what will happen when the stench reaches the shore.

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This guy ought to watch as many episodes of “CSI” as he can when he gets where he’s going.

Police in La Crosse, Wis., tracked down a thief who stole a bar’s safe, thanks to DNA collected from the chewing-tobacco spit he left behind.

A fisherman found the empty safe washed up on a sandbar in Illinois.

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Baby needs some new diapers, and nothing is going to stop that.

A couple strong-armed their way out of a Spokane, Wash., Safeway by punching out a security guard so they could make off with a pack of Huggies, police said.

The man yelled “sorry” as he hit the guard in the face, cops said.

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Prey it ain’t so!

A bald eagle stunned a 69-year-old retiree in Austria by swooping down and stealing her handbag. The giant bird of prey then landed on the street a few yards away and opened the bag to check its contents.

It turns out the bird lives in captivity and had gotten away, and the woman’s bag was the same color as the one in which its owner keeps food.

“He’s a very peaceful bird. He was starving, and thought the handbag had some food in it,” owner Ernst Koenig said.