An art exhibit at a shop in Oberlin, Ohio, created quite a fuhrer.

The display, in the window of a hardware store, was of a group of Nazi gingerbread men.

The artist said he had hoped to provoke thought, not offend.

But the shopkeeper, who in the past has shown other controversial art in his store window, said the edible atrocities were in bad taste and gave them the boot.

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A man walked into a gas station in Greenwood, Ind., got a soda out of a cooler and then pointed at the cashier with his hand inside a stocking cap, indicating he had a gun.

Then, saying he was sorry, he ordered the clerk to hand over all his cash.

After the worker obliged, the robber tossed some bills at him, saying “Here, take $20 for your troubles,” and fled.

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One small putt for man – one giant drive for mankind.

Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin is scheduled to hit a lightweight golf ball with a special 6-iron from outside the International Space Station today in a promotional stunt for a Canadian golf club manufacturer.

He’ll wedge his foot between the handrails of a ladder on the outside of the station, and will be attached to it by a tether. (lcf)

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The military police in Niteroi, Brazil, are suing a school gym teacher for letting his students play soccer.

The cops claim the inept students keep kicking balls next door and damaging cars in the police-station parking lot.

A school spokesman called the lawsuit “ridiculous” and those behind it “a bunch of old, frustrated policemen who can’t stand the vitality of our students.”

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Talk about a sound sleeper.

A man in Exter, England, didn’t budge when a 35-foot tree slammed into his house and landed just feet from where he slept.

He was awakened an hour later – by the ringing of his telephone. It was the police calling to tell him what had befallen him. Or is that tree-fallen him?

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A woman lost control and crashed her car, crawled out of the overturned wreckage and walked home – leaving her 29-year-old son either dead or dying on a nearby riverbank.

Ten hours later, an apparently uninjured Debra Walawitsa, administrativeservices director of Snoqualmie, Wash., returned to the scene and told police she had been driving the car.

She was charged with suspicion of vehicular homicide and felony hit and run. (m, s)