“I keep some knives around the house just in case,” Lambert told television station WSAZ.

Lambert started hacking, and the brothers were sent to the hospital.

“He defended himself well,” Boyd County Sheriff Terry Keelin said. “They paid dearly. … It would be doubtful that anyone would want to try to rob that victim again.”

How about a brain transplant?

A liver transplant recipient pleaded guilty to driving with a blood-alcohol level seven times the legal limit when he struck a pedestrian, two parked cars and a moving vehicle, the Buffalo News reported.

Gurninderjit Thandi, 32, had a blood-alcohol reading of 0.56. According to the American Council for Drug Education, a blood-alcohol reading of 0.35 for most people would be the same as being under anesthesia for surgery.

Thandi had two drunken driving convictions five years ago. He told the judge that he is still under a doctor’s care for the liver transplant he had in January.

Behind bars

A defendant in a Connecticut court decided to spend his court recess gulping down a bottle of vodka and breaking into cars parked in front of the courthouse.

Thomas Peno, 50, was already in court on charges of stealing a GPS and then trying to sell it back to the owner when he went on his binge.

When Peno returned to court, marshals arrested him for being drunk and disorderly. They then realized he matched the description of the man who broke into the cars.

It was Peno’s 40th arrest.

What a joke

A 75-year-old Chicago man was jailed after telling a flight attendant in New York that he had a bomb in his carry-on luggage.

But Draco Slaughter told police he was only joking.

As passengers exited the plane, a flight attendant noticed an unattended carry-on.

“I said it was mine, and kidding I also said that there could be a bomb in there,” Slaughter told police.

Slaughter could face up to seven years in prison.

— Scott McCabe