That’s one way to demolish a relationship.

A jealous husband in upstate Lyon, NY, used a backhoe to trash 30 demolition-derby cars because he thought his wife was having an affair with one of the vehicle owners.

He caused an estimated $40,000 in damage.

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In Utah?

A band teacher was busted for driving drunk near Salt Lake City on her way to school at 8 a.m.

Jillene Elliot, 41, was allegedly so drunk that she kept nodding off when cops questioned her.

She declined to take a Breathalyzer test. Just as well, because she probably would have blown above a high C.

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We always knew Bollywood’s giant musical sequences could be pretty scary, but one director claims he’s topped them all.

Ram Gopal Varma says his new horror film, “Phoonk 2,” is so terrifying that he’s offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can sit longest through it by him or herself.

Varma ran a similar contest for “Phoonk 1,” and the winner lasted just 30 minutes.

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Yes, they sure love the old man.

A 97-year-old peasant in Vietnam won $400,000 in the lottery, prompting dozens of distant relatives to line up at his home angling for a piece of the action in his likely-to-be-rewritten will.

“We’ll wait a few more weeks so he can calm down before asking him what he wants to do,” a lottery official said.