This heavy-metal family has issues.
A Pennsylvania teen who removed her belly ring after her skin became infected was attacked by relatives who held her down and tried to reinsert the piece, police in Mechanicsburg said.
The two adults were arrested and charged with assault.
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Does God make you pay your bills?
A Denton, Texas, tattoo artist was cheated out of $200 by a guy who requested a tat reading “Only God can judge me.”
The man had the motto inked on his upper arm over an image of praying hands.
He handed over a credit card for payment, but fled when the electronic card reader rejected the charge.
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Loaded weapons make dangerous sex toys.
A Texas woman was charged with manslaughter after she accidentally killed her common-law husband by shooting him in the chest during foreplay.
Deborah Yvette Parker, 38, told police she and Broderick Craig Crachian, 58, were playing “dirty cowboy” when the gun went off.
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In contrast, this sexual aid didn’t need any ammo.
A drunken Treasure Island, Fla., woman was charged with battery after yelling at her live-in boyfriend and poking him in the groin with a sex toy.
Police didn’t identify the pleasure-to-pain plaything.
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A British couple is making a stink in their bid to find their missing dog.
Jonathan and Louise Baltesz have been sprinkling their neighborhood with their own urine in an effort to induce their black Labrador, Simon, to return.
The couple is trying to mark their territory as a way to attract the stray pooch, on the advice of an animal-behavior expert.