This cowboy was out for a drunken joyride of the four-legged kind.

The Arvada, Colo., man was slapped with a $25 traffic violation for riding an animal under the influence after he rode a horse through a Denver suburb.

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Got a lead foot? Consider moving to Nashville.

That’s where three out of every four speeding tickets get dismissed — by defense attorneys acting as “special judges,” a TV news investigation found.

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A judge in Belgrade, Mont., forced a man to apologize to court clerks after he sent an expletive-filled affidavit in response to a jury summons.

Court workers are morons, Erik Slye wrote, and service is “a complete waste of time.”

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A woman in Loughborough, England, caught her cat with a sock in its mouth — and then found 50 more stuffed behind the feline’s bed.

Louise Brandon believes the year-old furball is stealing them from her neighbors’ laundry lines.

“It’s really embarrassing,” she said.

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What’s wrong with being naked?

That’s what a Japanese TV star told police who arrested him for public indecency when he was found drunk, in the buff and screaming in a Tokyo park one recent early morning.

His words struck a chord with the public and have now become the slogan on a new range of T-shirts selling like hotcakes.

Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, 34, who shot to fame 20 years ago as a member of boy band SMAP, resisted arrest and was bundled into a police vehicle.

Many Japanese complained that the slight actor was treated too harshly, especially after he appeared close to tears at a news conference where he apologized.

Prosecutors decided not to charge him.