A Cranberry, Pa., man was so unperturbed by losing a finger in a snow-blower accident that he didn’t even bother to look for it.

That left police with a real mystery on their hands when some kids found the severed digit two weeks later at a school-bus stop.

The man called cops only when he heard the finger had been found.

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People usually go to jail when they don’t file their taxes – not when they do.

But one Denver man turned that logic on its head when he was indicted for filing 56 false returns and collecting $75,000 in illegal refunds.

Michael Edward Adams filed the returns using fake names and Social Security numbers.

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In Kansas, law-breakers really do have to pay for a life of crime.

Officials at the Marion County Jail will soon begin charging inmates room and board – to the tune of $11.75 a day.

In addition, they will be charged for medication and health care when needed, and $25 to $40 an hour for transportation.

“If it gets expensive enough, maybe they won’t want to come back and see us again,” said Prison Commission Chairman Randy Dalke.

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According to some, crime should pay.

A man accused of terrorizing Phoenix with a series of random late-night shootings called the local paper and said they should give him a discount as a reward for generating so many headlines for them.

“I’ve sold a lot of newspapers for you,” fugitive Dale Hauser told the East Valley Tribune, which declined his request.

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A Brazilian housewife was sentenced to 19 years in prison for killing her husband, chopping his body into 100 pieces and then frying his remains in a pan.

Rosanita Nery dos Santos, 52, drugged her husband and then stabbed him to death two years ago.

After cooking his body parts, she hid them beneath a staircase in her Salvador home.

Police say the slaying was either part of a black magic-ritual or a bid to collect on a life-insurance policy.