A Huntsville, Alaska man's trip to the gas station became a long and painful one when one of his fingers got stuck into the gas tank's opening as he tried to clear some gunk from around it. The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon when Dwight Clark was in the parking lot of Medical Arts Pharmacy. There were many helpful people who tried freeing him by spraying WD40 and other tactics, but nothing seemed to work.

A life-sized Homer Simpson statue has been recovered and returned to the movie theater from which it was stolen, located in a popular suburban shopping mall near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's largest city. "This case has been solved," Mazlan Mansor, police chief of Malaysia's central Petaling Jaya district, told the Associated Press. The culprits, tracked down by local police, were allegedly just overzealous fans of "The Simpsons. "

A Janesville man was caught driving without a valid driver's license Saturday after his prosthetic leg slipped off, hitting the accelerator and causing the vehicle to run into a nearby liquor store. Martin E. Nehls, 49, was cited by police for operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver's license. According to AP reports, Nehls was about to pull up his Chevy Silverado from the parking lot of liquor store when his fake leg slipped off jamming the gap between the brake pedal and the accelerator. The impact caused the truck to move forward and hit the building, police said.

It was an easy job for police to catch a 22-year-old alleged thief suspected of burglarizing several vehicles, when he left his wallet as an evidence at the scene of one of the break-ins. The wallet contained the identification and parole card belonging to Christopher D. Hasty. Police arrested him after apartment complex residents said they saw him flee a car in the parking lot. There are reports that several cars were burglarized in the lot where officers found the wallet.

An Austin man who allegedly put his dog's feces in the same envelope he used for the payment of a parking ticket has now been charged with disorderly conduct. Police ticketed the vehicle of this 22-year-old on April 18 while it was parked in front of his residence. To show his annoyance, the man put an envelope containing his payment and dog feces in a drop box at the law enforcement center.