If these kids want pet cockroaches, they should move to New York.

Two brothers from Baltimore, ages 11 and 14, were busted for stealing a hissing cockroach — and some reptiles to keep it company — from a city nature center.

The boys were charged as juveniles, and all the stolen critters were found alive and well.

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Every city needs a tourist draw, and Joliet, Ill. now has one. It designated as a historic site the building where the world’s first Dairy Queen soft-serve ice cream shop opened in 1940.

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The Stone Age met the Cyber Age in a remote part of Indonesia when one group of natives attacked another with arrows and machetes — over a cellphone ringtone.

Members of the Wamena tribe were furious that Yoka tribesmen were using as a ringtone a song that insulted them.

So they did what they’ve done for thousands of years and attacked. They burned down 23 Yoka houses and damaged another 56. No one was hurt.

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Oh, baby, I love it when you pull my lever.

Spanish politicians are up in arms over a video posted by the Young Socialists in Catalonia in which a woman simulates an orgasm while casting her vote. It concludes with the phrase, “Voting is a pleasure.”

Socialist politician Bibiana Aido said, “If it was true, electoral participation would go up greatly, but I think we are dealing with a misleading ad.”