It’s not a crock that a British farmer has opened the nation’s first crocodile farm. Andy Johnson, 36, is raising eight Nile crocs, imported from Africa, in a heated building in Cambridgeshire – for food.

He hopes to start selling the victuals within four years of breeding them.

“Some say it is similar to chicken. It’s not,” he said before stating the obvious. “It tastes of crocodile.”

With 6-6-6 – June 6, 2006 – ringing in tomorrow, bookies of all sorts are cashing in. BetUS.com gives Earth a better-than-sporting chance of being around on June 7.

At 100,000-to-1 odds, if you bet the maximum $500 that the planet will survive and it does, you win half a penny.

But a $100 bet that the apocalypse is upon us stands to net a cool $10 million. The downside, of course, is that the “lucky” gamblers might have a devil of a time collecting.

When the circus hit Asheville, N.C., it found 60 protestors waiting. The animal-rights activists have a beef with the big-toppers.

“We’re all for circuses,” said protest organizer Leslie Armstrong. “We just don’t want circuses to use animals.”

Armstrong said kids should learn about animals in their natural habitats.

A Canadian pol was forced to return campaign contributions – from 11-year-old twins and their 14-year-old big brother.

The kids kicked in $4,900 each – as did their parents – but ex-Immigration Minister Joe Volpe ordered the largess returned to the minors.

Meantime, one columnist wrote: “Apparently, all across the land, teenagers with a few hundred grand to burn are asking themselves, ‘Do I buy a new sports car or support a long shot for the Liberal leadership? Ferrari or Volpe?’ ”

An Austrian burglar downed a bottle of vodka while on a heist and was caught – wasted – on his victim’s king-size bed.

Gerhard Sobor, of the town of Traisen, said he knew the snoring wasn’t his old lady’s.

“I walked into the bedroom and found a strange man, fully clothed, snoring away on my bed,” he said. “His pockets were full of my wife’s jewelry – and there was an empty bottle beside him.”