If this guy has to scrimp this hard to buy a truck, how will he ever pay for the gas?

A frugal, bank-wary Cincinnati man plunked down $8,000 in coins for a $16,000 Chevrolet Silverado. It took employees at the dealership 90 minutes to count the change James Jones had stashed in 16 coffee cans.

He and his wife did relent and pay the rest with a check.

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Clearly this undercover police car wasn’t used for a K-9 unit.

If it had, maybe cops in Providence, RI, would have been able to sniff out that the seized vehicle they had been using since 2000 had a half-pound of cocaine hidden in the dashboard.

Deputy Police Chief Paul Kennedy admitted that sometimes officers do “miss stuff” when searching contraband vehicles.

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He must have been one savage little simian.

A 31-year-old South Carolina man tried to steal a monkey from an animal park. But when the little guy fought back, the thief settled for a bear cub instead.

John Montgomery then put the animal on display to a truck stop where he charged people $1 to pet it.

He was charged with burglary.

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Thank God it wasn’t real.

Giant inflatable dog poo blew away from an outdoor art exhibition in Switzerland, tearing down power lines and damaging homes in its path.

The house-sized replica turd was ultimately corralled and brought back to the exhibition.

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Bungling engineers in Poland accidentally dug a railway tunnel that turned out to be too small for the trains that were supposed to go through it.

Officials said the mistake happened because the crew digging the tunnel didn’t communicate with the one laying the track.