A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking,"
          stole a steamroller and led police on a 5 mph chase until an
          officer stepped aboard and brought the vehicle to a stop.

Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 13 years
          on a book about Swedish economic solutions. He took the
          250-page manuscript to be copied, only to have it reduced to
          50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker confused the
          copier with the shredder.

A man in Johannesberg, South Africa, shot his 49-year-old
          friend in the face, seriously wounding him, while the two
          practiced shooting beer cans off each other's head.