It didn’t take dogged detective work to track down the holdup man who fled the People’s Bank in Lacey’s Springs, Ala., with more than $6,000 in cash.

The nitwit left his personal bankbook behind.

The suspect was caught and the loot was recovered less than 90 minutes after the robbery.

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“O, say, can you see?”

This guy wasn’t trying to hide behind the American flag. He was waving it as he walked along a highway in Hammondville, Ala., in broad daylight, wearing a cowboy hat, boots – and nothing else.

The man was arrested for public lewdness.

Cops had received several calls about two boozed-up flag-wavers trudging along the highway in the buff – but one of the plastered patriots had marched off into the sunset before they arrived at the scene.

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After a monkey terrorized passengers on the New Delhi subway, Indian officials hired an expert to keep the scampering, scavenging critters away.

The expert? Another monkey – a langur.

Ever since the fierce-looking primate began patrolling the subways with its handler, “we’ve not had a single incident,” reports a transit official.

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Iron Age men found time to style their hair and polish their nails.

Scientists who’ve been examining prehistoric remains that were discovered in Ireland’s peat bogs report that one of the 2,300-year-old bodies unearthed at Clonycavan near Dublin had Mohawk-style hair that was held in place with a gel substance.

Another had carefully manicured fingernails.

“Although they were living in a different time, a different culture, eating different things and living in a different way, people are people – they’re the same in their thinking,” said an official of the National Museum of Ireland.

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Brazilian police in a remote area of the Amazon knew where to look when they spotted diamond-measuring equipment in a car during a routine road check.

They checked the driver’s underpants and found a stash of 666 rough diamonds – next to the family jewels.