This is a good way to hide . . . but not exactly a good way to escape.

The cops in Petaluma, California were looking for a 29-year-old guy named Ryan Watt on Friday night after he violated his ex-girlfriend's restraining order.

And when he saw the cops coming, he took off running . . . right toward a giant CORN MAZE.  The corn maze is set up for the season at a pumpkin patch in town, and sits on four acres of 10-foot-tall stalks of corn . . . so the cops had a LOT of searching to do.

To their credit, they took a pretty smart approach . . . they had some cops block the entrance and exit, then sent in teams to systematically search every part of the maze.

After two hours, they couldn't find Ryan, so they called in a police helicopter . . . which is really cheating for a maze, but whatever.  And after the helicopter didn't help, one cop realized Ryan wasn't in the maze at all.

He was actually hiding in a chicken coop nearby.  He was arrested. 

(The Press Democrat)

You've got to take a long, hard look at your life if you're getting into life-or-death battles with people over who's going to get to raid someone else's TRASH.

That's what happened with two guys in Oakland Park, Florida back in July.  And these aren't homeless guys . . . these are guys with homes and cars and all that who got into a battle over trash.

A guy named Todd Beavers had gone for a jog around his neighborhood back on July 15th when he spotted a big pile of trash by a vacant home.  So he decided to poke through and see if there was any good trash for him to take home.

Well . . . it just so happened that a 54-year-old guy named Curtis Miller was also digging through the trash.

Todd wound up taking a utility cart from the pile.  And Curtis was upset, because he felt that since he'd gotten to the pile first, he had a claim on the best trash.

So he followed Todd home . . . grabbed a SAMURAI SWORD out of his car . . . and swung it at Todd as he tried to take the cart.

The cops put out surveillance footage of the fight last month, and someone identified Curtis.  And he was just arrested for attempted murder. 

(ABC 10 - Miami) 

(Here's a picture from the swordfight, and here's Curtis's mugshot.)

We've seen so many dumb 911 calls, you really have to get creative to make it on our radar.  So, kudos to this guy . . .

Police in the U.K. recently started getting phone calls from some idiot who wouldn't say anything . . . he just kept BURPING at them.

After his third call, they decided to release some of the audio.  Probably to shame him, and they figured he might stop.

But then the audio went viral . . . and he's actually got some SKILLS in the belching department.  So apparently it just egged him on.

After that, he called back and did it another NINETEEN TIMES in one day.

They tracked him down and arrested him for it on Tuesday.  He's facing charges for creating a public nuisance. 

(BBC / Cambridgeshire Live)

(Here's audio of one of the calls.)

If you've ever been sitting at a sushi restaurant and wondered what would happen if you ate a big scoop of WASABI . . . apparently it could be worse than you think.

There's a case in the "British Medical Journal" right now about a 60-year-old woman who was at a wedding and ate a big scoop of green wasabi . . . because she mistook it for avocado.

A few minutes later, she felt chest pains, which spread to her arms . . . and she wound up going to the hospital.  It turns out she'd triggered a heart condition called takotsubo cardiomyopathy . . . which is better known as "broken heart syndrome."

After something tragic happens, like someone close to you dying or the end of a relationship, the stress can trigger actual heart problems . . . that's why it's called broken heart syndrome.

And somehow, the wasabi did the same thing to this woman. 

For what it's worth, the researchers say they believe this is the first time wasabi has triggered this specific heart condition.  And the woman was back in good health again after about a month. 

(New York Post)

I can't guarantee it, but I feel like this MIGHT be the first time someone in Louisiana has been attacked by a CAMEL.

There's a truck stop in Grosse Tete, Louisiana, and they have a 600-pound camel named Casper living there in a petting zoo.

Well . . . last week, a couple and their dog were at the truck stop, and the dog wound up running into the camel enclosure.  That spooked the camel, and when the woman went in to get the dog, Casper the Camel attacked.

He wound up pinning the woman against a wall, and then SITTING on her.

But she survived by . . . biting the camel's TESTICLES.  That got him off.

Got him off OF HER.  Sorry.  I should've made that clear.  Anyway, she was able to escape.  Oh, and the camel was shocked but probably not hurt . . . because according to the manager of the truck stop, the woman didn't have any teeth.

The cops came and the couple got tickets for trespassing and not having the dog on a leash. 

(ABC 2 - Baton Rouge / WWL)

This might be one of the first people ever to be in court over aggressive flatulence.

There's a 28-year-old guy named Stuart Cook from Stonehaven, Scotland.  And earlier this year, he was arrested after a minor car accident when the cops smelled weed on him.

When they took him to the station, they performed a strip search.  And when they told him to bend over during the search, he intentionally PASSED GAS three times.  And he asked the cops, quote, "How do you like that?"

He wound up pleading guilty to the possession of marijuana and behaving in a threatening manner . . . but there was still the matter of the flatulence.

So he was in court last week facing charges for, quote, "intentionally flatulating" at the cops . . . which I guess is an actual crime on the books in Scotland.

He wound up getting sentenced to 75 hours of community service. 

(Aberdeen Evening Express)

How much is it worth to be free and NOT in jail?  To this guy, apparently the answer was . . . $11-a-month.

There's a 25-year-old guy in Toulouse, France.  He recently got out of prison . . . but earlier this month, he was busted for a string of burglaries when the cops found his DNA from saliva on the scene.

And when they arrested him, he admitted he'd intentionally SPIT all over the houses he broke into because he wanted to get caught.

Why?  Back in prison, they had a premium TV channel called Canal-Plus for free.  And he wanted to go back to prison to watch it.

A subscription to Canal-Plus costs around $11-a-month.

The channel has things like movies, sports, and original and imported TV series.  A quick glance over their homepage showed they've got shows like "Killing Eve" and "Big Bang Theory" and movies like "The Predator" and "The Emoji Movie".

Anyway, the court ordered a psych evaluation of this guy before they decide whether to send him back to prison to watch TV or not. 

(Oddity Central)

I know that passive-aggressive break-ups are so hot right now . . . but not when they cross the line into being ILLEGAL.

There's a 51-year-old guy named Paul Nixon from Klein, Texas.  And he's wanted by the police right now for divorcing his wife . . . without ever telling her.

Apparently she found out back in May when she got a bunch of court documents telling her that her divorce was final.

The cops investigated, and they figured out Paul had forged the documents from his wife and forged a signature from a notary to make the divorce happen.

So now he's wanted for aggravated perjury and the cops are trying to track him down.  He could get up to 10 years in prison.

Oh . . . and because the court now knows the truth about the divorce, it's been invalidated.  So technically, Paul and his wife are still married.  

(CBS 11 - Dallas/Fort Worth / Houston Chronicle) 

(Here's his mugshot.)

Did you have any friends in high school with an insanely loud speaker system in their car?  Apparently EVERYONE had that friend . . .

Cops in Ohio pulled over an Amish horse-and-buggy the other night, about 40 miles east of Cleveland.  And it had a MASSIVE subwoofer system built into it.

The speakers were facing forward . . . apparently so the people in it could ROCK OUT while they buggied down the road at eight miles an hour.

When cops stopped them around 1:00 A.M., they abandoned their horse . . . left a 12-pack of Michelob Ultra on the roof of the buggy . . . and ran off into the woods.

Police found several open bottles inside, and towed the buggy to an impound lot.  Now they're waiting to see if someone comes forward to claim the horse.

(WYTV)

(Here's a photo of the speaker system.)

Yeah, I think it's safe to say this guy doesn't have the maturity to move out of his parents' house QUITE yet.

A 22-year-old guy named Erik Villasenor in Sylmar, California lives with his parents, and got roped into going to the Los Angeles County Fair with them this past weekend.

And he REALLY didn't want to go . . . so on Friday, he sent an email to the fair saying, quote, "I was told that someone was planning on doing a mass shooting on Sunday at the fairground."

The police and FBI traced the email to him within hours.

Fortunately, it really WAS a hoax . . . but he was still arrested for making a false threat.

And the police say they'll be looking for Erik to reimburse them for the cost of the investigation around his fake threat. 

(CW 5 - Los Angeles / CBS 2 - Los Angeles)

In New Zealand, when someone's going to get laid off, their companies give them a heads up . . . and they're legally required to let the employee bring along a, quote, "support person" like a friend, their spouse, or their lawyer.

Or . . . um . . . this.

There's a guy named Josh Thompson in Auckland, New Zealand who recently got an email from his bosses at an ad agency telling him they needed to have a meeting to discuss his future at the company.  He knew it meant he was getting canned.

So . . . he hired an emotional support CLOWN to come with him.  Josh paid the clown around $125 to come with him to the meeting in full makeup . . . and make balloon animals while Josh was being let go.

Anyway, he says his bosses found the whole thing funny . . . and he already has a new job with one of their competitors.

As for the clown, he says this was not, quote, "the weirdest job I've had . . . top 10 though." 

(UPI / Facebook / Newshub / New Zealand Herald)

(Here's a picture of them at the meeting.)

You probably have YOUR side of the bed at home.  But do you keep those sides when you're at a hotel?

There's a 33-year-old woman named Ashley Crampton, and she and her 26-year-old wife were at a Budget Inn in Clearwater, Florida this weekend.

Well . . . Ashley's wife apparently took Ashley's usual side of the bed.

And that made Ashley so FURIOUS that she kicked her wife off the bed, then punched her when she tried to get back on.

Ashley was arrested for domestic battery. 

(The Smoking Gun)

(Here's her mugshot.)

If you look up your bank account balance one day and it's six figures higher than normal, you HAVE to expect someone's going to find that mistake.

36-year-old Robert Williams and his 35-year-old wife Tiffany from Montoursville, Pennsylvania got a giant boost to their bank account back on May 31st . . . when a teller accidentally deposited $120,000 into their account.  Their balance before that?  $1,121.

But Robert and Tiffany decided the right move wasn't to contact the bank . . . it was to go on a SPENDING SPREE.

So for the next few weeks, they bought an SUV, two four-wheelers, a camper, and a car trailer . . . they paid off all their bills and car repairs . . . and gave $15,000 to friends.

BUT . . . in mid-June, the bank figured out their mistake.  And despite what the game "finders keepers" might've taught us in elementary school, the bank took their $120,000 back and transferred it to the correct account.

So Robert and Tiffany were told they had to return all the money they'd spent, plus they were hit with $107,000 in overdraft fees.  They tried to ghost the bank to get out of it . . . so the bank called the cops.

And now Robert and Tiffany have been arrested on felony theft charges. 

(ABC 16 - Scranton / Williamsport Sun-Gazette)

If you steal something from the '90s, be prepared to get busted by something from the '90s too.

Some thieves stole a 1995 Jeep Cherokee from a 55-year-old guy named Joe Williams in Portland, Oregon last month.  The cops found it abandoned about a week later.

As Joe and his teenage kids were going through the car, they saw the thieves had gone through the glovebox and found an old disposable film camera.  His kids decided to have the film developed to see what was on there.

And . . . besides some old family pictures, it turned out the car thieves had taken SELFIES with the disposable camera.  So Joe now has a great look at all of their faces.

Some people in his neighborhood thought they recognized the people in the pictures . . . but Joe says he doesn't want to bother turning them over to the cops.

Quote, "The Jeep's older than dirt.  When I bought my new car, I was going to trade it in.  The dealer offered $65 for it."

Also . . . the thieves left some tattoo equipment behind in the Jeep, and Joe wanted to keep it, but his wife said no, so he left it on his front porch.  And, quote, "Someone stole it." 

(The Oregonian)  (Here are the thieves' selfies.)

You don't see many cases of assault with a CUPCAKE, but here you go.

Back in May, a woman was driving in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, when another driver passed her on the shoulder and apparently flipped her off.

A 31-year-old guy named Trevor Pearson was in the car with her, and he threw a CUPCAKE at the other car when they caught up.

And somehow, that cupcake hit the driver in the FACE.

It's not clear if the car was a convertible, or if Trevor managed to make a miracle throw by getting the cupcake through an open window while the cars were both in motion . . . but either way, the cupcake hit the driver's face.

And Trevor was just formally charged with a misdemeanor count of assault and battery.  He could be looking at up to 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. 

(Pauls Valley Democrat / Newsweek)

So THIS is where we stand now with the Popeyes chicken sandwich.

In case you haven't heard, Popeyes announced last week that their new chicken sandwiches were so popular, they RAN OUT.  Stores will sell what they've got and won't get reinforcements until they're available.

Well . . . a group of two men and three women in Houston apparently hadn't heard that news.  And they went through a Popeyes drive-thru on Monday night to order the sandwiches.

When the staff said they were sold out, the five people got out of their car and tried to STORM THE POPEYES.

A manager quickly locked the front door . . . so one of the guys pulled out a GUN to try to get a sandwich.

The manager told him they really didn't have ANY, so the group took off.  And now the cops are trying to track down the guy who pulled the gun on felony aggravated assault charges. 

(The Smoking Gun)

You'd THINK that being inside your car all night would be a good enough way to keep a car thief from stealing it.  You'd THINK.

There's an 80-year-old woman who lives in Hamilton, New Jersey.  And on Wednesday night, she fell asleep in her car in her driveway around 9:00 P.M.

She woke up at 4:00 A.M. . . . she was on the driveway, and the car was gone.

Apparently some thief had opened the car door, picked her up, moved her onto the driveway, and stolen the car . . . and she slept through all of it.

The woman called the cops, and even though she had a cut and a bruise on her face, she had no memory of someone stealing the car while she slept.

The cops found the car abandoned later that day . . . but they still haven't found the thief. 

(NJ Advance Media)