A California cabby took a woman passenger on a cross-country trek from Beverly Hills to Chapel Hill, N.C. – only to have her to skip out on the fare.

When Levon Mikayelyan arrived at a Holiday Inn in Chapel Hill, his customer paid only $800 of the $8,200 bill, said Chapel Hill cops.

The woman’s family has paid an additional $2,000, and the company will seek the rest in small-claims court.

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More than 900 Japanese musicians collaborated on the world’s longest concert, performing for a nonstop 184 hours, even through a major earthquake.

The nine-day music extravaganza, which began on March 23 and finished yesterday, was almost derailed last Sunday when a 6.9-magnitude quake erupted and shook the building – but the musicians, ages 6 to 89, were determined to break the record.

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Guests at a Duluth, Minn., hotel and water park were sent running from the swimming pool when a 20-foot fake plastic volcano erupted like the real thing, spewing black smoke and flames.

Firefighters put out the blaze, and the only damage was to the volcano, said hotel management, which blamed an electrical problem.

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She must have already used all her sick days.

A Nebraska woman was so desperate to get out of working last weekend that she made a bomb threat to her employer 10 minutes before she was supposed to start work.

Brandy Killin used a pay phone, but cops still traced the call and arrested her.

Killin, 26, faces up to five years in prison if convicted on the felony rap.

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A 110-year-old man in Saudi Arabia has taken a second wife because his first, age 85, can no longer satisfy his needs.

A news report did not reveal which of the polygamist centenarian’s needs are going unfulfilled, but did point out his additional wife is only 30.

The groom’s son said his dad is in good health and the family was thrilled upon hearing of his latest marriage.