Drop the Bazooka and come out with your hands up!

There’s a crime wave in Connecticut: sticky-fingered thieves are stealing chewing gum at stores statewide.

In one of the biggest recent heists, a 21-year-old man was charged with shoplifting about $800 worth of gum in Stratford, Bridgeport and Fairfield.

Cops theorize the “gum-bahs” want something they can sell quickly and is hard to trace.

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Joey Chestnut, who won last summer’s Coney Island hot-dog eating contest, is expanding his horizons.

His latest feat: winning the first ever Masters Meatball Eating Contest in Vegas on Sunday. He gobbled down 50 of them in 10 minutes — and went home with the first prize of $1,500.

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Speaking of large amounts of food, students at the University of California, Berkeley created the world’s longest sushi roll.

The 330-foot California roll contained 200 pounds of rice, 80 pounds of avocado, 80 pounds of cucumber and 180 pounds of fish.

In a nod to the school’s vegetarians, the final 15 feet contained tofu instead of seafood.

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And MORE about food.

A British woman has a beef with vegetables — they terrify her.

Vicki Larrieux’s disease has a name: lachanophobia. The 22-year-old says just the sight of carrots, peas, cauliflower and other vegetables gives her panic attacks and makes her sweat, and “my heart rate would shoot up.”

As a child, she said, “I used to properly freak out if some carrots or a few peas were on my plate.”

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This would-be bandit had the right idea — just the wrong utensil.

A robber in Lublin, Poland, tried to hold up a bank by wielding a spoon.

Staffers followed his orders and got on floor — until they saw his weapon and laughed him out of the place.