Going for a ride in your new car? Hold your breath.

Researchers say the “fresh-from-the-showroom new- car smell’’ that everybody loves is bad for you.

A new study by the non-profit Ecology Center and HealthStuff.org found that you’re smelling toxic fumes from chemicals used to create the car’s interior.

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A good citizen read about a robbery in Leechburg, Pa., and thought he recognized the crook.

It was himself.

Timothy Beer, who claims to have split personalities, told cops that one of them was the bandit who held up a local restaurant.

So he turned himself in.

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Not only can a robber catch himself — so can a cop.

A plainclothes officer in Sussex, England, spent 20 minutes looking for himself.

Searching for a suspected burglar, the cop kept following the directions of the operator of surveillance cameras who told him a person lurking in the area was acting suspiciously.

He kept following the operator’s directions, before realizing he was the suspicious character — and was chasing himself.

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It’s a weight-loss program that even a dumbbell can follow.

A British firm is selling kitchen utensils with weights attached — so when you lift a fork or a spoon to stuff your face, you’re also exercising.

The knife and fork weigh more than two pounds apiece; the spoon weighs twice as much.

They’re being marketed for “gluttons in need of a workout.’’

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Parents are ditching fairy tales because they’re too “grim’’ for modern kids, a British study has found.

About a third of those questioned said their kids started crying after learning the fate of Little Red Riding Hood; and more than half said Cinderella sets a bad example by doing housework all day.