No good deed goes unpunished.

Stan Morris, of Bullhead City, Ariz., risked his life to save a raccoon drowning in the Colorado River.

Morris, 57, named it Sonny and domesticated it and was seen around town with the critter on his shoulder.

But the state Game and Fish Department arrested Morris for not obtaining an exotic-animal license.

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The biggest lobster ever caught in Maine — a 27-pounder with claws tough enough to snap a man’s arm — has been released back into the Atlantic.

Nicknamed “Rocky,” the male crustacean, about the weight of a 3-year-old child, was caught in a shrimp trap last week.

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Do you want fries with your Founding Father?

A Nebraska woman is auctioning off a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget that she believes looks a lot like George Washington.

Rebekah Speights said she started laughing when she bought the nuggets and “saw this [silhouette] of George Washington staring back at me.”

The bid was up to $228.49 in the McNugget’s first day on eBay.

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Bootleg maple syrup?

A Rhode Island man pleaded guilty in Vermont federal court to cooking up his own home brew made of water, sugar and maple flavoring and selling it as the real thing.

Bernard Coleman, 50, of West Warwick, RI, said he initially sold the nature-made stuff via the Internet but decided to make his own when the price of syrup went up.

He faces up to three years in the pokey.

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The “Chuck Norris Bridge” is no joke in Slovakia.

The martial-arts actor, who figures regularly in jokes in the central European state, is winning an online election by a landslide to see whose name will go on a bridge that spans the Moravia River and connects with Austria.