A man in upstate New York apparently misunderstood the concept of the right to bear arms -- when he hatched an unsuccessful plot to kill his girlfriend by first shooting a bear, then dressing up in its skin to attack her.
Clyde Gardner believed that by wearing the bear's paws over his hands, he could avoid leaving fingerprints, then make tracks out of the area. He then he tried to offer to pay a pal to kill the woman.

An Indiana teenager saved local cops by walking into a police station wearing a set of handcuffs. Zachary Keilman showed up at the station in Lowell, IN and announced that he was pretty sure there was a warrant out for his arrest. He came to this conclusion because he'd just escaped from a deputy's car after being detained for underage drinking but He left his identification in the back seat of the police cruiser.

A Florida woman assaulted her son's girlfriend with a copy of the good book! The younger woman told deputies she had been arguing with her boyfriend's mother when the woman picked up a Bible and threw it at her, hitting her in the eye and opening up a good-sized gash. The alleged assailant insisting she accidentally hit the second gal in an effort to make her "get out of her face" with a camera phone.

The protests against Wall Street greed have gone nationwide with protest in front of the Federal Reserve banks and made their presence felt from Wall Street to Los Angeles in a demonstration of frustration and anger over corporate greed. On Wall Street, protesters dressed like zombies, holding handfuls of fake money. The protesters ranged from college students to veteran workers who are jobless.

TV pitchman Donald Lapre was found dead of an apparent suicide Sunday while in federal custody. Lapre, who was discovered in his Arizona jail cell, had been charged on 41 counts in a scheme that allegedly defrauded more than 220,000 victims of nearly $52 million. His trial was scheduled to begin today.

THEY URNED A NICE VACATION - Deb Green of Vancouver says that her dad, who died in 1994, and her mom, who passed away this past summer, always dreamed of seeing the world, but couldn't afford to. So she's embarked on a Craigslist campaign to fix that by asking travelers to take small vials of their ashes on trips and to sprinkle them along the way. So far at the base of the Eiffel Tower and a fountain in Las Vegas.

A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS, $100 FOR YOUR SAUSAGE - Managers at a Pennsylvania Wal-Mart lost a court battle with a woman who sued them after being overcharged on a bill -- by two cents!
Mary Bach was awarded $100 in damages and $80 for her court costs after she took the retail giant to task for making her pay a dollar for a package of sausage, even though the price sticker clearly said 98 cents on two occasions.

An Indiana woman was arrested last week when cops spotted her driving erratically in her golf cart -- after she'd stopped to buy a bottle of whiskey and a scarecrow. Jacqueline Hamilton was weaving between lanes on a yellow brick road in Chesterton, Indiana, leading her fellow motorists to call police. When she was pulled over, officers said she smelled strongly of alcohol and admitted to having 10 drinks.

Simon Cowell isn't like the rest of us. As proof, he details a typical day in his life. Every morning begins with breakfast in bed. "I'll do 500 push-ups in a day religiously, and if I can I like to have a workout," "Then I have a steam and a bath." How does he wind down? "I'll have a massage and then I'll have four or five beers ice cold then I'll carry on until 4 or 5 in the morning and that kind of keeps me awake."