Police in southwestern Ohio say a police chief mistakenly shot himself in the thigh after giving his daughter a gun safety lesson.

Barney Fife is on the job

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You can lead a horse to a tree lighting ceremony, but you can’t prevent it from turning the night into a giant cluster.

Accident dims tree lighting

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This squirrel in a Minneapolis neighborhood gets drunk from eating fermented pumpkins.

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When a wealthy businessman’s wife got lost in her Mercedes on the way to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, she did not stop to ask for directions.

Instead she stopped at a supermarket, bought two bottles of wine and promptly downed them.

Drunkest driver police had ever seen

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By the year 2020 the United States Army is planning on having 30 percent of its forces made up of robots.

The term robot means “everything from self-driving trucks up to what you would conventionally think of as a robot,” explained Bill Smart, a military expert at Washington University.

Robotic Army

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