Flushing cash down the toilet may seem like a waste – but it helped cops bag a bandit.

Ohio officers nabbed a bank-robbery suspect after they found the red-dye covered bills stuffed in the toilet of his parents’ home.

He’s being held in lieu of $50,000. Maybe he should search the toilets.

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A North Carolina man applying for a gun permit landed in the joint after cops got a whiff of marijuana.

When Dennis Lee Vines, 25, walked into the Lenoir police station, the department’s drug-sniffing dog went bananas. A quick search revealed two bags of pot, two joints and rolling paper in Vines’ pickup truck.

“We see it all in this business,” said Sheriff Alan Jones.

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Gaining weight wasn’t the only reason a Michigan con should have laid off that cinnamon bun.

Norman Wheeler was busted for auto theft after police were able to match him to DNA left on the half-eaten bun he left at the scene in 2004.

Wheeler had since been arrested for another auto theft, and had to give a DNA sample. Police used it to match him to the unsolved crime.

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Cringing, cowardly canines can build up their confidence in a course designed to bring out their inner wolf.

The class, taught by Austrian animal-behavior expert Marianne Prutsch, has been a hit.

“More and more dogs are scared of their own shadows, and the course is designed to make them more self-confident and secure,” she said.

Certain breeds are more nervous than others, including Dobermans, Dalmatians and border collies, Prutsch says.

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Get out, and stay out!

A German man took those words from his girlfriend a bit too seriously and lived in the woods for 28 years after she threw him out of their house.

“My fiancée threw me out, so I came here and have been here ever since,” said Konrad Schmidt.

“I don’t want any contact with people. I get a bit of money collecting bottles people leave in the woods, and that’s all I need.”