An 11-year-old Texas boy successfully led police to the arrest of a man suspected of large-scale theft. The little detective, identified only as Simeon, was waiting with younger siblings in the parking lot of a Dollar Tree store in Universal City when the incident tool place. The San Antonio Express-News reported that Simeon spotted a man getting into and out of a pickup, while smashing a window on a Nissan Xterra and stealing items from the car.

The prisoners at the Scott City Jail in Missouri invented a new method to cover up a hole in a prison cell when they used pancake batter and toothpaste. The inmates reportedly used this new method to cover a hole they made to allow a female inmate to slide into the next cell and join a male inmate. They first removed a block from the wall, after making a digging tool with a nail. They also used a wire from a light fixture and a toothbrush as their other tools.

Colorado Springs artist Jason Baalman is trying out an array of unusual mediums that can produce a picture on a canvass - be it ketchup with French fries, or chocolate syrup with a spoon. But this 30-year-old artist has an eye for technology too, as he has also painted a replica of the Mona Lisa using Microsoft's Paint accessory software. Since posting a video of himself painting portraits of Ronald McDonald and Morgan Spurlock, the creator of the documentary "Super Size Me," using ketchup and French fries on social networking website You Tube, Baalman - previously a struggling artist - has bagged a huge backlog of portrait orders.

A man initially arrested for indecent exposure for lying on a tree stump in the buff along a nature path in El Cerrito, California, alarmed police when he told them that he was carrying a weapon. They could not see it, as the man had no place to conceal it, or so they thought.

A 26-year-old man who lives in Oregon has created what he believes to be the heaviest rubber-band ball ever. Steve Milton's ball weighs 3,300 pounds and stands nearly five feet tall. It currently takes up half his garage, and Milton says he wants to put at least 1,000 more pounds on it. Milton is keeping the public posted on the ball's ever-growing size on his MySpace page. He's also uploaded videos of the ball crushing stuff. One video shows a forklift dropping it on an old van.