Jackie and Brian Lawson of Chimacum, Wash., got more than they bargained for when they called the Internal Revenue Service to request an instruction book.

Instead of a single copy of Form 1040 instructions for 2003 – which they needed to correct a costly error on a past return – they received 12 cartons containing 24,000 copies of Form 1040 instructions for 2005.

And UPS called to say another 12 boxes were about to be delivered – all packed with instructions, not refunds.

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He said he did it “for love.”

Gary Lee Wilson of New Port Richey, Fla., became so enraged during a phone conversation with his girlfriend that he tried to mow her down – while she was inside a local bank, police said.

He crashed his pick-up truck through the bank’s glass doors and missed his lady love – but hit her mother and grandmother, who were not seriously injured.

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For the second time in a month, burglars broke into a new restaurant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and baked themselves a sausage and beef pizza.

After scarfing down the pie, the hungry hooligans took off with a load of meat, cheese and sauce – leaving the pizza oven on and their dirty dishes in the sink.

“With my prices, they shouldn’t steal them,” griped the beleagured restaurant owner.

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Cops in North Port, Fla., have finally fingered the rats responsible for swiping marijuana, cocaine and other narcotics from their evidence room.

The rats are rats – the four-legged kind – that have been chewing their way into bags and bins of evidence.

Officials fear the gnaw-ty critters may have damaged evidence crucial to upcoming trails.

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If this had happened in the Florida Keys, we could understand it.

It seems a piano washed up in a remote area of Turakina Beach on the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island.

No one knows where the upright came from – but the locals are tickled that half its ivories are in working order.