But the cow said she really needed a ride

A man was pulled over in South Wales after police saw that he was transporting a cow in the back seat of his Volkswagen Passat. An RSPCA spokeswoman said, “This is a completely unacceptable way to transport a large, farm animal.”

HEY, WHAT I DO ON MY BREAK IS MY BUSINESS! … A man and a woman were caught having enthusiastic sexual intercourse in the fifth-floor stairwell of the Rapides Parish Courthouse in Louisiana by an employee who came to investigate the loud, passionate noises they were making. They ran away, but the employee recognized the man as a trustee assigned to cleaning the building.

COOLEST MOM EVER! … A woman, high on ice and cannabis, driving a car with stolen license plates, led police on a high-speed chase through Melbourne, Australia, with her teenage son and his 14-year-old friend inside the vehicle. Stop sticks blew out the two right tires, but she still managed to ram two police cruisers before the episode came to an end.

IS THERE A PROBLEM, OFFICER? … A man was arrested in Abbotsford, British Columbia, for towing a sailboat on a trailer that had no brakes and a handmade third axle that was attached to his vehicle with duct tape.

DID YOU FORGET YOUR KEYS? … A woman, who was naked from the waist up, stole a front-end loader in Great Falls, Mont., and drove it to an apartment complex, where she smashed through a fence, damaged a car and hit the side of the building. She then elevated the front end to the second floor and crawled into an apartment before coming back out.

SO, YOU SEE, I’M PACING MYSELF … Police pulled over a man after he repeatedly tapped a woman's rear bumper in a restaurant drivethrough in Vero Beach, Fla. Cops noticed an open bottle of Jim Beam bourbon in a brown paper bag on his front seat. He told officers that he drank only when stopped at traffic signals and stop signs, admitting that he imbibed “actively” all the way from Port St. Lucie to Indian River County.

WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN? … A man burglarized a landscape supplies office in Leander, Texas, while wearing a pair of boxer shorts on his head to obscure his identity. Alas, a good part of his face was exposed as he disabled the security camera, which had already filmed him.

OH, YOU’RE HERE, FINALLY! … A man called 911 for a ride home in Destin, Fla., three times, and became belligerent when his request was refused. So a deputy came to the man's location to find him still on the phone cursing at the dispatcher and with drugs in his possession.

GAME OVER! … A man broke into a business in Vancouver, Wash., and happened into an “escape room,” into which game-playing participants are locked and must find clues, solve puzzles and compete against the clock to make it out. He was unable to do so, and had to call the cops.

THANKS FOR THE LIFT, MAN … A man was arrested for drunken driving after speeding through a school zone in Hoboken, N.J., at 4 o'clock in the morning with a friend of his on the roof of his BMW.