Octopus, cat and shotgun are among items left on trainsSource: Telegraph
A dead octopus, a cat and part of a shotgun are among the items passengers have left on trains this year, according to rail companies.
Hundreds of items are handed into the lost property offices at stations by rail workers who find them abandoned on trains.
Victims beaten with a shotgunSource: Bradenton Herald - By Robert Napper
MANATEE — A man and woman say they were attacked and beaten with a shotgun during an attempted robbery early Saturday, according to a Manatee County Sheriff's Office report.

Since then the Deliverator has kept the gun in the glove compartment and relied, instead, on a matched set of samurai swords, which have always been his weapon of choice anyhow. The punks in Gila Highlands weren't afraid of the gun, so the Deliverator was forced to use it.
Five-year-old boy kills 12-foot-long 800-pound alligatorSource: Telegraph
Simon Hughes was on a hunting trip with his father when they came across the massive reptile.
The boy grabbed his junior-sized .410-gauge shotgun and fired at the creature which was 20 times his size and is one of the biggest ever seen in Texas.

I often wonder how people who have never been to a gun show perceive such an event.
Taser releases new device fit for shotgunsSource: bizjournals.com
Taser International Inc. has released a new shotgun-ready projectile similar to its other stun-gun products, but with twice the range and the first with wireless capabilities.
BREAKING: Shooting at U.S. Holocaust MuseumSource: The New York Times
At least two people were shot Wednesday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, authorities said.
D.C. police spokeswoman Traci Hughes said a person walked into the museum at about 1 p.m. with a rifle and shot a guard. Hughes says the shooter was also shot.
Want to go to Bristol Palin's Baby Shower?Source: bust.com
This is a pretty hilarious and bright idea. Bristol, daughter of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is as you probably already know getting married to the father of her unborn son.
Man charged with shooting lawn mowerSource: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A 57-year-old south side man, who might have been struggling with a hangover, is charged today with shooting his lawn mower with a sawed-off shotgun.
"I'll tell you the truth," a criminal complaint quotes an apparently inebriated Keith Walendowski.
King of Jordan Drives Obama to AirportSource: ABC News Blogs
After attending a banquet at King Abdullah's Beit Al Urdan palace Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, hitched a ride -lliterally - to the Amman airport with the King.
Man with suicide victim's heart kills selfSource: msnbc.com
A man who received a heart transplant 12 years ago and later married the donor's widow died the same way the donor did, authorities said: of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.