It pays to advertise — but not when you’re selling pot on the Internet.

A Quincy, Mass., resident posted a Craigslist ad reading “420 help is here. Give me a ring if you need some help.”

Marijuana subculture legend has it that 420 refers to the after-school time of day students would meet to smoke weed.

It didn’t take long for an undercover cop to apprehend Christopher Gray.

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An ill-mannered ape peed on the president of Zambia at a press conference outside the African nation’s state house.

“Perhaps these are blessings,” good-natured President Rupiah Banda said.

Several simians live on the grounds.

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A Russian luxury-yacht company is offering pirate-hunting cruises off the coast of Somalia aboard ships armed with weaponry.

Costing $5,000 a day, passengers can try their hand and repelling raiders with the help of a squad of former troops.

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Stalin lives! In economic theory, at least.

Members of the Communist Party in a southern Russian town have put up billboards of the Soviet dictator promoting his methods as a way to fix the global economic crisis.

“Everybody knows that under Stalin our country achieved the highest rate of economic growth and development,” said party leader Sergei Rudakov.