When a biker sped into a Tampa, Fla., parking lot with red smoke spewing from a black bag and then jumped into a car driven by another man, trucker Uwe Scherruble knew he was witnessing the final stages of a bank robbery.

So he moved his recycling truck into the path of the getaway car.

As the wheelman tried to maneuver around the truck, Taylor Walker, the cook from a nearby cafe, ran into the lot and began banging on the car’s hood with a rolling pin. The crooks were caught.

This woman has a lot of horse cents.

She placed a 10-cent Superfecta at the Sports Creek Raceway in Swartz Creek, Mich, and won $21,584.

Tracks nationwide have been introducing 10-cent wagers to lure more customers – but big wins are not a dime a dozen.

Brian Capps of Covington, Ga., couldn’t believe it when he discovered someone had broken into his house and replaced the beige carpeting in his master bedroom with “ugly” brand-new carpeting.

Cops investigated and found out that the new carpeting was intended for a neighbor with a similar-sounding address in the same subdivision.

To Capps’ further dismay, the carpet installers – who jimmied a door open – had disposed of his carpeting, and the line has been discontinued.

A man on trial for theft in Coburg, Germany, was caught stealing the judge’s keys.

Police said the suspect told court officials, who confronted him in a bathroom, that he had no idea how the keys ended up in his pocket.

“He told them he realized how suspicious his story would sound and that he had therefore hidden the keys under a toilet brush,” a police spokesman said.

Workers in a store in Blyth, England, who regularly play the lottery together won with all 28 of their tickets.

The 28 colleagues won a share of the $7.9 million jackpot with six correct numbers, plus 12 payouts for having five matching numbers and 15 for having four matching numbers.

Because there were so many other winners in the drawing, their total haul came to only $1,150,000 – or $41,070 each.