A bumbling burglar left behind his ID card, which he had used to jimmy the lock of a Rock Island, Ill., home before stealing $400.

Cops had no trouble tracking down the culprit, and promptly arrested Robert Alan Fry, 43, charging him with third-degree burglary, possession of drug paraphernalia and interference.

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A drunken German man deposited himself in a “mailbox” – which the government had installed to let parents leave unwanted newborns.

Heinrich Mueller, 28, slid down the chute and ended up in an emergency incubator that triggered an alarm, but instead of another unwanted baby, nurses found Mueller smoking a cigarette.

He then fell asleep as staff worked out how to get him out at the hospital in Dortmund.

Hundreds of babies have been deposited in the boxes since the “no questions asked” program started five years ago.

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Three abandoned tiger cubs are now living high on the hog after a pig was brought in to nurse the three young Bengals at a Chinese zoo.

The cubs had refused to drink milk from a bottle, but latched right on to the pig, zoo officials said.

“Then we thought, since this is the Chinese Year of the Pig, why don’t we find a pig to nurse the hungry babies,” a spokesman for Xiangjiang Safari Park in Guangzhou City said.

“The tigers are tamely sucking the milk, and the sow accepts her three new ‘sons.’ ”

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The descendants of an 18th century British admiral shot by firing squad after his failure to “do his utmost” to defeat the French are now lobbying for a posthumous pardon.

On the 250th anniversary of Admiral John Byng’s execution in 1757, family head Lord Torrington has written the government.

“I have asked the Defense Secretary to consider the matter because Admiral Byng has been judged not guilty by the fullness of time,” he told the Daily Telegraph.

The family hopes their ancestor’s name will be cleared in the same way 306 executed World War I soldiers were pardoned last year.