From around the web here are some stories - some about Milwaukee, some not - but all fun, outrageous or interesting.

• This is one crossing guard that knows exactly where the lane is.
• Charlie Sheen wants you to deliver some doggy leftovers to a 9-year-old girl and her school with "extreme prejudice."
• Not everything you find in a McDonald's ball pit is edible. Especially if it's used. And rubbery.
• Mike Brenner is attempting to make Milwaukee the "beard capital of the world."
• Larry Sanders and Tom Jones?
• Dennis "The Worm" Rodman turns up in Rome to meet the new Pope and is trailed by reporters. Who's the bigger fool, Rodman or the media?