They’re flaming idiots!

A group of friends drinking at a pub in Las Cruces, NM, made a bet: The one who consumed the least would agree to be set on fire by the others.

Luckily, the loser had a prosthetic leg — and his pals ignited that.

But the flames spread to his butt, and he wound up in a hospital.

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They’re certainly not known for speed — but this is ridiculous.

Lucy the tortoise finally returned to her New Hampshire home — four years after escaping.

The reptile, native to Africa’s Sahara Desert, apparently survived the winters by digging herself a deep hole in the ground.

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These cops should be been equipped with waterproof vests.

The Duluth, Minn., officers got a report of a driver brandishing a gun.

When they pulled the car over, they found a cache of Super Soakers.

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This guy got fired — but many people probably think he should have been given a medal.

The Dutch worker lost his job for sawing a colleague’s vuvuzela in half.

His soccer-mad colleagues had been blowing the horns constantly whenever the Netherlands played a World Cup game.

The final straw came when co-workers attached a vuvuzela to a compressed air pump, setting it screeching nonstop.

“It’s vuvuzela terror,” said saw-wielder Nels van Toor, who got his revenge yesterday: The Netherlands lost.

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And speaking of the World Cup . . .

Paraguayan lingerie model Larissa Riquelme promised to run naked through the streets of the capital, Asuncion, if the national team won. But then she decided the quarter-final victory was enough.

She’s partially made good on her promise by stripping for a magazine, but says the run is still on.