Dude, you might want to try turning the lights off when you leave the house.

Richard Redden, of Weatherford, Texas, got an electric bill for $24 billion. Fortunately, it was a printing error.

“I know they raised the rates on kilowatt hours a little bit,” he said. “I guess we shouldn’t have run the heater so much this month.”

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This probably doesn’t count as an alternative-fuel source,

A Washington couple was busted after an auto mechanic found 150 pounds of marijuana stashed in their fuel tank.

When their car broke down, the mechanic told them their gas tank would have to be replaced, but they were adamant that he leave it be. That aroused his suspicion and he called cops, who discovered the tank had been divided into two sections – one for gas and the other for pot.

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A gunman shot two clowns dead in front of a crowd of horrified children at a circus in Colombia.

“The clowns came out to give their show and then this guy came out shooting them,” one spectator said. “It was terrible.”

Police said the shooting did not appear to have anything to do with the circus, and they were investigating the motive.

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Two Serbian doctors got into an argument during a routine appendectomy and decided to stop the operation to step outside.

Surgeon Spasoje Radulovic was performing the operation when Dragan Vukanic walked in and made a disparaging remark that sparked the fight.

“At one moment, Vukanic pulled the ear of the operating doctor, slapped him in the face and walked out,” the anesthesiologist on duty said.

They then walked outside and exchanged blows.

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A man in Italy turned his dead dad into an ice pop by storing him in the freezer for two years so he could keep collecting the old man’s pension.

“I needed the money,” admitted 63-year-old Gaetano Sivieri.

Sivieri, who collected more then $100,000 in pension money after his father died, faces charges of fraud and concealing a body.