You’ve got to admire Dona Ramona. The spunky 97-year-old Colombian woman is alive and well – after wrongly being declared dead four times.

Doctors believe that Ramona, from the town of Sampues, keeps slipping into a diabetic coma, which dramatically lowers her vital signs and makes her appear dead.

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Doing a little heavy breathing at your high-school homecoming dance used to mean canoodling with your girl.

Now it’s puffing into Breathalyzers.

Schools in California have started testing kids who appear to be boozed up, in a bid to cut down on drunken driving.

Not everybody’s enthusiastic.

Santa Barbara HS senior Alexander Argyropoulos said alcohol tests encourage students to use drugs that can’t be detected, adding that drinking is “better than possibly trying cocaine.”

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A German architect has filed a patent for a new type of cement – made entirely of dog poo.

Friedrich Lentze says his “odorless heating and building material” is made from feces cleaned from the streets of Berlin every day, and creates a “great mortar with fantastic insulating properties.”

Hey, Friedrich – come on over to the Big Apple, we’ve got plenty of raw material for you here.

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In other dog news, a burglar who escaped police was recaptured – thanks to his pet pooch, who eagerly led cops to his hiding place.

The 22-year-old suspect had fled his home to hide in his neighbor’s garden in Hanover, Germany, but left behind his American Staffordshire bull terrier named Lumpi.

Quick-thinking lawmen gave Lumpi the order to seek his owner out, and the obedient pooch raced next door and stood wagging his tail by the bushes, where the crook was cowering.

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It was tough going for criminals in Amsterdam, too.

That’s where a burglar frantically phoned the cops after he broke into a house and found the rotting corpse of an 89-year-old woman. Police believe she had been dead for some time.

Bet that’s one crook who’s been scared straight.