A robber learned the hard way that hailing a taxi to make a getaway works only in the movies.

The crook, about to rob a suburban Chicago Burger King at knifepoint, asked the cabby to wait.

But the thug took his time, and when he came out after 30 minutes the cabby was gone and the suspect was captured.

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New Hampshire cops, including a SWAT team, engaged in a 6½-hour standoff outside the home of an armed-robbery suspect — who turned out to have been unconscious from a drug overdose the whole time.

The cops went to the home on a tip, but even though another occupant said the guy was out cold, they waited until they painstakingly determined via camera robot that it was safe to enter.

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This guy’s pimp hand may not be strong, but it’s well caffeinated.

A 43-year-old Cleveland pimp was busted for making a Starbucks his base of operations.

No word on whether his stable of women was as overpriced as the lattes.

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At least someone in Florida is proud to wear the colors of the lowly NFL Miami Dolphins.

Gator watchers in the Sunshine State were shocked to find a bright orange alligator by a lake.

At first they wondered if it had been born that way, but then experts determined that pranksters had applied some bright dye to the reptile.

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You’d think this sort of scene wouldn’t raise an eyebrow in Germany.

A dominatrix in a cat suit caused a terror scare in Gunzburg when she was spotted walking one of her clients down the street wearing a latex suit and a gas mask.

The mask made some passers-by fear there might have been a poison-gas attack under way, and police were summoned.