Caution: Vampire crossing.

Colorado may have to install new traffic signs after a woman driving along a dirt road in the town of Fruita crashed into a canal after she said she was startled by a vampire.

She told cops she was so shocked, she brought her car to an un-dead stop, threw it into reverse and landed in the drink. She was not hurt.

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Burglary is hard work.

A 22-year-old man broke into a house in Dyersburg, Tenn., by smashing a window and kicking in a door.

That tired him out so much, he fell asleep on a couch, where the homeowner found him.

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He helped catch a criminal, but it wasn’t a rewarding experience.

Mike Schillmoeller was walking his dog in Cocoa, Fla., when he spotted a homeless man suspected of calling in bomb threats to more than 50 schools, hospitals and other places.

But he didn’t get the $5,000 reward because he called 911 before tipping off the local crime hotline.

The disgusted 22-year- old complained, “They want the public to help . . . but they don’t want to return the favor.”

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If cops in Manchester, England, find this guy, it won’t be easy for him to beat the rap.

Officers have hours of recordings of a rapper wannabe who has called their emergency number up to 10 times a day since January to serenade phone operators.

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A lock of Napoleon Bonaparte’s hair has been sold at a New Zealand auction for $13,000.

It was cut from his head after he died in 1821 while in exile on the island of St. Helena.

It was brought to New Zealand in 1864 by a British soldier who had served on the remote South Atlantic island for the six years the French emperor was there.