Strange way to celebrate family heritage.

A New Hampshire judge has ordered a family to lay to rest the mummified remains of a baby that has been passed down for generations.

Charles Peavey was disappointed to have to give up the family heirloom.

“It’s one of the few things from our family past that we have left,” he said.

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A drunken man in Evansville, Ind., had to be rescued by firefighters after he got stuck trying to climb down a chimney into a friend’s home.

“Everyone does stupid things sometimes when they’re drunk,” Alejandro Valencio admitted.

The woman whose house Valencio tried to get into was none too pleased.

“I told them to leave him in the chimney and let him die,” she said.

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A Medford, Ore., teacher has filed a lawsuit to fight for her right to bring a handgun into class.

The teacher is trying to overturn the school district’s ban on all guns in the classroom.

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Staffers at a German butcher store were shocked to find two sex aids stashed with some sausage they had been asked to pack up for shipment to Dubai.

“He could have used a loaf of bread,” said a police spokesman.

“It’s not against the law here, but, obviously, I can’t speculate on what customs in Dubai will have to say about it.”

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Speaking of which . . .

An Australian burglar broke into a neighbor’s home and crafted a sex toy out of a bottle of detergent, a rubber glove and a vacuum cleaner.

Police tracked the break-in to him through DNA found on the glove.