What a ruff day.

Firefighters in Naperville, Ill., had to saw apart a mechanical reclining chair to rescue a dog trapped inside.

The terrier, Ebonyser, had crawled into 87-year-old owner Ken Makris’ favorite chair at an assisted-living facility.

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New Haven cops don’t double as taxi drivers, but that didn’t stop Quandria Bailey, 28, from dialing 911 six times to request a ride from a nightclub back to her Meriden home.

She was charged with six counts of misuse of 911. She posted a $1,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court May 5.

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An Indianapolis man is suing a convenience store for $11.5 million, claiming he would have won a jackpot that size if a clerk had sold him a ticket.

Charles Andrews, 70, says he had picked the winning numbers for a 2008 drawing, but workers at the Speedway store refused to sell him a ticket just before the cutoff time.

Furious, Andrews left the store — leaving behind his signed play slip as proof in case he hit all the right numbers.

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A California community wants put the brakes on a pot peddler on wheels.

Stewart Hauptman has been selling medical pot out of a souped-up, 1985 motor home, and the city of Norco wants him stopped.

Hauptman said he sells pot to old people outside clinics.

“These are not young kids who go out and get stoned,” he told the LA Times. “These are older people, some dying from cancer.”

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