When a San Antonio, Texas, woman informed her husband of 15 years that she was leaving him, he padlocked a 25-foot chain around her neck.

Someone noticed this when the couple dropped their kids off at school, and called the cops. When they arrived at the couple's home, they found her standing in the driveway while her husband slept in the passenger seat of the car, holding the chain.

He was charged with unlawful restraint.

DON'T FORGET THE WHIPS, HONEY

A 40-something female lion tamer in a German circus was teaching the circus director's 20-year-old son how to tame the big cats when one thing led to another and they fell in love.

She ran off with him and also took eight lions and two tigers.

THIS GIFT WILL GIVE YOU A SPECIAL FEELING

Customs agents in Rome became suspicious of a package mailed from Peru. It turned out to be a Nativity scene made entirely of cocaine.

THIS WON'T HELP HER CASE

A woman charged with drunken driving in Queensland, Australia, showed up in court drunk to answer the charges.

A PATIENT MAN, A LONG MEMORY

A British soccer fan was crushed when his team lost a semifinal match by a score of 1-0, 19 years ago, and has held a grudge ever since against the man who scored the winning goal.

The game-winning player became a bricklayer and was on the job at a construction site recently when the fan spotted him, punched him to the ground and bit off his ear.

I SAID CURLY FRIES, PARDNER! BANG!

A man ordered curly fries but was given regular french fries at the drive-through window of a Greenville, S.C., restaurant.

The manager refused to replace them because the guy was eating the fries he had been given. Rebuffed, the customer shot out the window and drove off.

BUT HE WAS A DISRUPTIVE INFLUENCE

A health inspector in Lancashire, England, was fired from his job because he attacked a fellow employee with an ax.

After he served five years in jail, the man sued his former employee for wrongful termination and won. The reason: He was fired without being given a week's notice.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?

The people of Swaziland have been tuning in to hear Swazi Radio's war correspondent, Phesheya Dube, file live reports from Iraq. Or so they thought.

Legislators were shocked when they spotted him walking through the Swazi parliament building. An investigation has been launched.

SO CARA MIA, WANT TO TAKE A RIDE?

Since many young Italians live with their parents into adulthood, they are forced to their cars when they want to have a romantic interlude.

As a result, the town of Vinci is renovating a car park with special lighting where young couples can go to vent their passion.

I LET YOU OUT OF MY SIGHT FOR ONE MINUTE ...

A man robbed a convenience store in Albuquerque, N.M., while carrying a baby. He fled to a nearby hotel where he was staying with his wife, who, police said, didn't know what her husband had been up to and "was a little bit upset."