Freezing rain couldn’t stop crowds from flocking to see Kansas City’s new penguin exhibit. If only there were penguins.

There was so little to do that some 2,000 people visited the local zoo in the terrible weather to look at an empty hole where a penguin exhibit will be built.

To make up for the lack of birds, workers held up pictures of penguins.

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A Florida town is facing a reptile invasion.

Officials in Hiland Park, say that 33 Argentine tegus lizards — which can grow up to 4 feet long — have been found in just the past week. The reptiles went wild after a rogue lizard dealer abandoned them.

The good news is the lizards are mostly interested in sunning themselves — but they do have long teeth that can give a nasty bite.

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A Gainesville, Fla., man hunting for squirrel used a technique that only Elmer Fudd would dream up.

William Daniel Lloyd allegedly taped a live .40-caliber bullet cartridge to the end of a high-powered BB gun and pulled the trigger.

The pellet hit the bullet cartridge so hard that it exploded in Lloyd’s face, wounding him.

Cue Looney Tunes music.

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Superheroes in Seattle are super mad.

A group of vigilantes who dress up in comic-style costumes to fight real crime are flying off the handle after the city’s police issued a report saying their activities should be “restricted.”

The report comes after a group of people dressed up like superheroes got into a fight with anarchists who were trying to deface a courthouse last May.

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This guy tripped the light fantastic, right into jail.

Omar Cota, a reputed member of the Brew Town gang wanted for drug trafficking, was arrested while dancing at Route 66 Casino’s Club Envy in Albuquerque.

No word on whether the police asked to cut in.