Anna Rudolph recently learned that the quiet, unobtrusive folks down the road have been using her land for years. She can’t exactly kick them off, however – because they’re dead.

Town deeds in Mundy Township, Mich., revealed Rudolph, 83, owns half of Mount Hope Cemetery.

Now she wants a refund on the taxes she’s been paying on the property all these years – because graveyards are exempt.

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Verdicts weren’t the only things that emerged from Superior Court in Derby, Conn., this week – a woman taking care of a small-claims matter gave birth in the bathroom.

“In 19 years, I’ve never done anything like this,” said court marshal James Fraulo, who played midwife.

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Drinking and smoking are for the birds.

That’s what Juliette Davis, 61, found out when she finally spotted the culprit stealing her cigarettes and brandy from her garden patio table in Aldridge, England – a large magpie who flies off with her smokes, then returns to sip her booze.

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Speaking of birds, a Chinese woman is living in a cage suspended 12 feet off the ground amid 300 of her fine feathered friends in the middle of a park.

The 25-year-old from Hubei, who plans to stay cooped up for seven days, says she trying to experience the pain of a caged bird.

Uh, or maybe the pain of a New Yorker living in a “cozy” studio apartment.

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A 24-year-old Chinese man tried to sell his soul – not to Satan but to the highest bidder on the Internet.

He got 58 bids – the highest being $84 – before the ad was yanked off.

“We pulled down the posting because we think only God can control souls,” said a spokesman for the Taobao Web site.

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A passenger was yanked off a British jet as a suspected terrorist – because he sang a famous rock song by The Clash that contains such lines as “War is declared – and battle come down.”

Harraj Mann, 24, said he was grabbed on the Durham-to-Heathrow flight after singing “London Calling.”

Next time, maybe he should just hum.