Debbie Phillips called police after she came home and found someone had cleaned it.

Cops laughed when she told them nothing was missing from her Charleston, W.Va., digs – but things had been rearranged, her bed was made differently and everyone she asked denied responsibility.

The mystery was solved a few weeks later, when a cleaning woman arrived at Phillips’ door when someone was home.

Turns out she had been hired by a neighbor who has a look-alike house, a similar address and a key hidden in a similar spot.

Retiree William Fogarty of Palm Harbor, Fla., was pretty embarrassed when he discovered a $1 money order in a box of World War II-era memorabilia.

It was for payment of a parking ticket he’d gotten in Norfork, Va., in 1946 – but he had never mailed it.

Fogarty, no deadbeat, immediately sent it in – 60 years late.

A group of 10 to 15 masked men descended on a Taco Bell in Marion, Ind. – but not to rip off the eatery. They dropped off six 40-gallon trash bags and fled.

Inside the bags were 25,000 individual packets of taco sauce.

A note left behind explained that the packets had been piling up in a car trunk over three years and, after considering using them to pull off a practical joke, they decided to return them.

A British man’s wallet was pinched by a lobster.

Paul Westlake’s wallet slipped out of his pocket into Plymouth Sound.

A short time later, a diver spotted it on the seabed – in a lobster’s claws – and pried it loose. Inside, he found a business card that helped him track down Westlake.

The diver ate the lobster and returned the wallet.

Hello!!!

A lonely Japanese man has been arrested for making 37,760 directory-assistance calls – and never saying a word – because he wanted to listen to the “kind” voices of the female telephone operators.

Police in Hiroshima said he used his cellphone to make to 905 calls a day between March and July.

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