When you gotta go, you gotta go — even after committing a crime.

A 43-year-old man was charged with robbery in Suffolk, Va., after allegedly knocking off a convenience store. Cops caught him minutes later — urinating behind the store, still with the stolen cash.

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California cops extinguished an odd crime spree.

A 45-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stealing 45 fire hydrants in Riverside and San Bernardino counties to sell for scrap metal, police said.

It’s believed the thief posed as a repairman, unbolted the 80- to 100-pound hydrants, and hauled them away in broad daylight.

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Nevada historians want to designate Mark Twain’s former Lake Tahoe home for landmark status.

There’s just one problem: California researchers insist Samuel Clemens set up camp on the west side of Lake Tahoe in the early 1860s, making him a Golden State resident.

Unmoved, Silver State historians insist that they’ve found — on their side of the lake — a huge, tablelike, granite boulder that Twain said he used for meals and card games.

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A school near Toronto has apologized to a first-grader and her mom for making the girl take off her MedicAlert bracelet, believing it was jewelry.

Tianna Brown, 7, who has asthma, was told several times this year that she couldn’t wear her MedicAlert bracelet in gym class.

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Almost one in five people in Britain think haggis — the traditional Scottish dish made from the lung, liver and heart of a sheep — is an animal that roams the Highlands, according to a survey.

The poll also showed that 15 percent of respondents think it’s a Scottish musical instrument.

Still another 4 percent believed it was a character from Harry Potter.