A cat called Wild Oats went for 19 whole days with a jar on its head, to the frustration and the concern of a woman who has been feeding it for years. Tabitha Cain recalled seeing the cat with an empty peanut butter jar on its head, and tried to catch it to get the jar off.

After attending a funeral, a drunken mourner stole a hearse to go fishing. Funeral directors tried to recover the $15,200 Ford Forte hearse by pursuing the thief but the 46-year-old drunkard easily shook them off.

A man who hoped to land in the record book for netting what was thought to be the biggest salmon caught off British waters went home disappointed, because there was no scale to weigh his catch. According to a local paper, the giant fish measured 56 inches long, 50 inches round and could have been more than 64 lbs enough to break the 85-year old record set by Georgina Ballantyne in 1922 with a fish she hooked in Perthshire.

A kayaker on Monday repelled the attack of an 8-foot great white shark along the coast of one of Australia's popular beaches using her paddle and escaped to safety with only a minor bite wound in the wrist. Linda Whitehurst, 52, was paddling her kayak near the eastern coast of Byron Bay when the shark lunged at her and knocked her off her craft. The shark reportedly bit a portion of the kayak.

Six friends broke a record after catching a 844-pound shark during a fishing tournament off the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday. Adlee Bruner, 47, and his five other friends took more than an hour to pull the 11-foot mako shark onto the boat from the Gulf of Mexico.