Talk about the punishment not fitting the crime.

A man and his pregnant wife were not only arrested when they forgot to pay for two cheapo sandwiches they ate while shopping in a Honolulu supermarket — but, incredibly, welfare workers also took away their 2-year-old daughter.

Even though Nicole and Marci Lesczynski shelled out $50 for their groceries at the checkout, a guard stopped them because they ate the $5 sandwiches — and called cops.

Police refused to believe that they just forgot to pay, cuffed them and took them into custody.

After several hours, the parents were released on $50 bail.

But the terrified tot was held for 18 hours.

“She’s never spent a night away from us,’’ Nicole said. “She didn’t have her stuffed animal. She didn’t have her toothbrush.’’

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Your candy or your life!

A woman in Aiken, SC, joked with a 10-year-old trick-or-treater about stealing his candy.

So he pulled a gun.

Fortunately, it was unloaded.

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They were in high spirits.

A woman in Euclid, Ohio, claims her 4-year-old granddaughter took a picture of two shameless ghosts enjoying supernatural sex in her living room.

Dianne Carlisle, a master of understatement, said, “I’ve never seen anything like this.’’

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His best friend did him in.

Cops in Provo, Utah, easily tracked down a burglar who broke into a car — because he left his dog behind at the scene of the crime.

The dog wore tags that led detectives right to the suspected burglar’s home.

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The staff at a British liquor store refused to sell a bottle to a 92-year-old woman.

That’s because she could not show proof of age.