Airport officials in San Diego evacuated a terminal and delayed several flights when a man disappeared after running off a Chicago-bound flight, 10 minutes before its scheduled takeoff, telling a crew member, “I can’t take this flight.”

The plane took off two hours later, after a check of the man’s luggage and a sweep of the American Airlines aircraft for explosives found nothing amiss.

When the 26-year-old man was finally located, he told Lindberg Field authorities he had experienced a panic attack. He also triggered quite a few.

Forget about heavily insuring your next car. Have it blessed instead.

Priests in Calugareni, Romania, are performing car blessings on demand for motorists who believe it will make them safer on the road.

Cops in Fairland, Ind. are combing the countryside for a wildcat car vandal.

At least that’s what they think they’re looking for – judging by claw and bite marks and paw prints found on 72-year-old Edra Ragland’s Buick.

The cat-astrophic damage was estimated at $1,700.

A Georgia state judge has been banned from his courthouse for not passing the bar – an Atlanta bar called the Beer Mug.

Seems a local TV crew caught him on film drinking there during work hours and then getting behind the wheel of his SUV.

According to the TV report, Judge David Fuller downed 19 drinks during a seven-hour period one day last month and then, slurring his words, refused to let someone else drive for him.

Fuller, by the way, once taught prosecutors DUI law, and has ruled on many DUI cases.

A 63-year-old German retiree has been fined for setting off fireworks and singing joyously in the street – to commemorate the death of a gay neighbor.

The man launched his sick celebration as his neighbor was being carried out of his home in a coffin.

The retiree was convicted of maligning the memory of the dead and defamation by the court in Lauterbach, which slapped him with a $3,102 fine.