No good deed goes unpunished.

A clerk was fired from his $7.50-an-hour job at a Jacksonville, Fla., gas station after helping capture a robber.

Keith Ireland was reportedly canned for leaving his work area without permission after he chased the crook’s car to get a clear view of the license-plate number.

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A British woman angered police when she called to report her snowman had gone missing.

She feared her Frosty pal had been stolen by kids — and expected incredulous cops to investigate.

The abductee was described as a jolly soul with a corncob pipe, button nose and eyes of coal.

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Officials in England are targeting a new public-health menace — waiting-room magazines.

Researchers found that the mags are covered with germs from ailing readers waiting to be seen by doctors.

Medical practitioners are now asking visitors to bring their own reading material.

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Nice work if you can get it.

An artist has gotten a financial grant from British authorities to make “invisible art.”

Agnieszke Kurant has created works including “a painting that hasn’t been painted yet,” “an invisible sculpture” and “a movie shot with no film in the camera.”

For all this nothingness, Kurant was paid $2,300.

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An Israeli entrepreneur has come up with a new invention to help the paralyzed walk — “robotic trousers.”

Amit Goffer, who himself was paralyzed in a car crash, has created the mechanical unit that straps to the legs and allows the disabled to easily walk with crutches.

The device, however, costs an arm and a leg: $100,000.