Least competent criminals

. A 30-year-old man appears to be the most recent person (according to the account of police in Woodland, Calif.) to attempt to throw burning fireworks at a target while traveling in a car, but having the toss fail to clear the window and thus explode inside the car. He was hospitalized.

. In another familiar scene, two 18-year-old men who spotted police approaching their trailer-park home in Salina, Kan., panicked and tossed illegal drugs out a window. However, police spotted the flying drugs, even though cops had originally intended only to serve warrants on two of their neighbors. The men were arrested.