In America, it’s your God-given right to curse at your overflowing toilet.

That’s what a judge ruled after a Scranton, Pa., woman was cited for loudly uttering dirty words at her dirty, malfunctioning latrine and was heard out the bathroom window by a cop neighbor.

She was acquitted on First Amendment grounds.

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Nice of these Minnesota cops to give a thief a helping hand.

A Maplewood woman suspected of stealing a laptop computer made her getaway by swiping the officers’ patrol car as they investigated the theft.

The cops had placed the cuffed McKenzie Schafer in the rear seat, but when they went back into the building, she climbed into the front and drove off. She was soon recaptured.

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It’s sort of like man bites dog.

An Oregon tow-truck driver angry at getting a ticket hooked a police cruiser.

The ticketed 32-year-old driver was busted after he hooked the marked police cruiser while the officer responded to a domestic-disturbance call in Gresham.

He unhooked the car when an officer ordered him to but then locked himself in his truck and refused to cooperate. He was eventually coaxed out by his boss and arrested.

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Life must have been so good for one Romanian man that he didn’t realize he was dead.

Gheorghe Stirbu, 61, had the shock of his life when he went to renew his identity papers and was told that, according to records, he had died in 1999.

An official said mistakes did occur from time to time “but not something so serious showing someone had died.”

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Only in India would a story involving a holy man with a “magical leg,” two thieves and a sickle end this way.

In a bout of superstition, the two limb louses cut off the holy man’s leg and ran.

Yanadi Kondaiah, 80, had claimed those who touched (not stole) his right leg would be cured of illness or have their wishes granted.

A senior police officer said, “We are looking for the miscreants as well as the leg.”