A Michigan man gave new meaning to “firebug” when he caused a blaze that engulfed an acre of woods after trying to burn out an ant hill.

Lakeview firefighters were so angry about the incendiary shenanigans that they billed the man for the cost of putting out the blaze.

***

Talk about heavy petting!

A 66-year-old Pennsylvania man was busted after he admitted to his relatives that he was having a relationship with the family dog.

Robert John Ward — a previously convicted sex offender — was jailed after cops performed a human rape-kit exam on the canine to prove that she had been molested.

***

A Kansas man drove his car through the front of Wichita’s City Hall — because cops had asked him to turn his stereo down.

Marcus Johnson, 33, smashed his car through the glass front doors, careened down a hallway and nearly ran over people getting into an elevator.

Now he must face the music — he’s been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

***

A soldier has gotten out of bigamy charges after claiming that he suffered posttraumatic-stress disorder in Iraq — and forgot that he was married when he got home.

William Rivera got a new bride in Missouri after the war — and his original wife found out about it when she saw a feature story about his second marriage on TV.

Rivera told officials he was so haunted by the war, he thought he had been divorced.

All charges against him were dropped.

***

Britain has opened its first blood bank for dogs.

It takes donations just like a human blood bank, and stores the blood by type. Unlike a people blood bank, however, doggie donors get dinner after they do their good deed.