Cat crashes reporter's standup

The CBC's Briar Stewart was taping a report outside when a cat decided to use the cameraman as a ladder to get a closer look at what was going on.

Police in Fredericksburg, Va., have launched an internal investigation after an officer was caught on video using a Taser on a fleeing suspect.

Officials in Ames, Iowa are defending Monday's shooting of an apparently unarmed man in a stolen SUV.

In Amsterdam, a cyclist barely avoids being struck by a falling tree. Gale force winds caused the tree to be uprooted.

Darnell Barton, a bus driver in Buffalo, N.Y., talks an apparently suicidal woman off the ledge of a bridge, and the whole incident was captured by the bus' surveillance camera.

Oregon State Police released this dramatic dashboard video of a deadly shootout between a trooper and driver. It happened on I-84, about 100 miles east of Portland. John Van Allen, 34, is pulled over, exits his car and begins shooting at the state trooper. Allen is killed in the exchange. He is found dead in his car a half-mile down the road. Three juvenilles were in the back of the car uninjured.

Surveillance video shows a scuffle that erupts over nine-year-old's birthday cake at Cowlitz County Hall of Justice in Washington state.

Meteor lights up the night sky over Greenwood, Ind., Sept. 27, 2013. Video courtesy BAM Chase LLC.

Footage of a speeding motorcyclist colliding with a bear in Ottawa, Canada, was caught on a helmet cam and released by the police. The driver has non-life-threatening injuries and the bear walked away.

A hydroplane flipped and broke apart on impact during Seafair Weekend in Seattle, Wash.

A mama bear and her cub were separated when the cub got trapped in a dumpster in Azusa, Calif. The cub was freed with the help of a ranger from The California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Caught on tape: Video released by Madison Metro Bus Service show 23-year-old Whitney Verdegan getting hit by a bus while riding her bicycle. Amazingly, she survives with only scrapes and bruises. Warning: Video may be disturbing to some viewers.