Nobody complains about the fare on Recession Ride Taxi.

Cars run by the Essex, Vt., company sport big signs saying, “Pay What You Want!”

Eric Hagen, who came up with the idea, says he hasn’t been shortchanged.

Most of his transactions are in cash, but he’s been paid with a $10 supermarket card, and a musician once gave him a CD.

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Not a bad price for a 75-year-old used gun.

A small pistol belonging to legendary gangster John Dillinger has been sold at auction in Los Angeles to an unidentified collector for $95,600.

The Remington .41-caliber Double Derringer had been hidden in one of Dillinger’s socks just before he was busted in Tucson, Ariz., in 1934.

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The children’s classic “Make Way for Ducklings” — a story about a family of ducks escorted across a Boston street by a warm-hearted cop — is not on the reading list for the Fairfax, Va., police.

Jozsef Vamosi tried to help a family of geese cross a parkway and was promptly busted for jaywalking.

“If I had the chance, I would do it again,” Vamosi said. “It’s how I’m raised.”

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When Rome cops interrupted a mugging, no one was happier than the mugger, who’d just grabbed a handbag from a woman in a group of Korean tourists.

It turned out everyone in her party was skilled in taekwondo.

“Thank you,” he told the cops. “I was being massacred.”