I hope you all had a nice holiday.

Last week we looked back at some of the best Offbeat had to offer. I laughed so much looking back that I decided to do it again this week. Ah, the memories.

A fleeing canoeist

You're running from police and the only thing separating you and freedom is a lake.

What do you do? Just call it a day and give up?

Not this guy.

Police were responding to a stolen car complaint in October and when police approached the man, he took off running. The next time police saw him, he was in Kearsley Lake, paddling away in a canoe.

Police showed they can be resourceful, too, but they opted the smarter route. They got a motorboat from a neighbor. Never bring a canoe to a motorboat race. Police quickly caught up to him, but the man was a resilient one.

He paddled furiously, trying to get away.

"However, it was machine over man and the exhausted boater was captured," said Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton.

The Flint man, 22, was charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor -- but not, said Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton "with failure to wear a life jacket."

The suspect was "up the river without his paddle," Leyton said.

What goes around comes around

Talk about karma.

A 17-year-old man who was shot in Flint last month while police said he was attempting a carjacking got a good dose of karma when he showed up at the hospital for aid.

The nurse who was treating him remembered him as the guy who robbed her two weeks prior, according to Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton.

The nurse did the right thing and recused herself from treating the man.

She's a stronger person than me, because I would've opted for a bit of revenge first.

As far as the suspect goes, he got a fresh set of robbery charges to go with his carjacking case.

Shooting yourself in leg not once, but twice

A 42-year-old Grand Blanc Township man may do well with a refresher course on gun safety.

The man was hunting small game in Grand Blanc Township on Sunday when he tied his rifle on a rope so he could carry it up a tree.

Nothing could possibly go wrong with that plan, right?

As he was making his way up the tree, the hunter dropped the gun and it went off, according to Grand Blanc Township Police.

Repeatedly.

The first shot his left leg, followed by another shot that hit his right leg. Ouch.

He was able to crawl out to a nearby road where a relative came to his aid.

He was taken to the hospital in stable condition.

He later told police he thought the rifle's safety was on. Officers then informed him it's probably not the best idea to tie a rope around the trigger.

On the bright side, the Department of Natural Resources came out and ruled it a hunting accident and that the man had not broken any laws.