An Indianapolis casino is employing a group of chickens to take on gamblers at Tic-Tac-Toe.

The chickens are always allowed to go first and make their choice by pecking on a game screen. Bosses at Casino Aztar say players who manage to beat the bird will win $5,000.

“It’s possible to beat the chickens, but they’re very good,” spokeswoman Pam Martin said.

The 15 trained chickens are all leghorns from a farm in Springdale, Ark. The first one to take part suffered stage fright and another bird had to be called in as a pinch pecker.

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A rough-and-tumble biker from Illinois has started wearing a kilt when he travels because he feels too restricted in trousers.

Dan Starr from St. Charles – who wears a leather jacket with his kilt and has several Harley-Davidson tattoos – says he enjoys the breeze that blows under his kilt as he rides.

He also says the kilt is better for his anatomy than wearing trousers. And no he doesn’t have any Scottish blood.

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A Texas burglar who went on the lam in 1987 is behind bars this week – after he met his prosecutor in a restaurant.

Louis Papakostas, 35, introduced himself to Assistant District Attorney Mark Skurka at an eatery in Corpus Christi, then asked if he was still a prosecutor. Skurka recognized him and called the cops.

Papakostas – who vanished before his sentencing in 1987 – was to serve eight years. During his years as a fugitive, he joined the Greek army and started a family.

“He thought that the case had just gone away,” his lawyer Bill May said. But State District Judge Martha Huerta said: “The bottom line here is that you cannot run from reality.”

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Show-and-tell landed a California man in jail after his grandkids brought to school a handful of counterfeit $100 bills he allegedly made.

School officials in Modesto called police after the kids, ages 5 and 7, said they had taken the money from “grandpa’s van.”

Cops arrested Jose Luis Landeras, 42, on suspicion of making counterfeit money and spending it over the past seven months. They confiscated $2,000 in phony bills.