A 46-year-old man is suspected of being Denver’s mysterious crapper scrapper.

Donald Allen Citron is suspected of carrying off 18 burglaries so far this year — by walking into the restrooms of businesses, ripping copper or brass plumbing and hardware from the toilets and sticking the metal in his backpack.

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It was a case of death by legume.

Warehouse worker Raymond Segura Jr. died Thursday in a the storage warehouse of the Kelley Bean Co. in Brush, Colo. when he was buried under 15 feet of pinto beans.

Beans were brought into the storage unit on an overhead conveyor belt, but it was unclear how Segura, 56, came to be crushed by them.

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Fred Guentert has spent 25 of his 89 years creating his very own Egyptian sarcophagus so he can become a modern-day mummy.

Guentert, a retired postal worker in Orlando, Fla., carved the 7-foot-long long tomb out of cedar wood and studied ancient Egyptian designs to make sure the colors were authentic.

Guentert said his fascination with mummies comes from his being born in 1922, the year King Tut’s tomb was discovered.

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It’s enough to drive a fly to drink.

Scientists at the University of California San Francisco have discovered that sexually frustrated male fruit flies consume four times more alcohol than those who had recently mated.

Flies that enjoyed female companionship took advantage of less alcohol-spike food mash than flies who were placed in vials with females who had already mated and rejected any courtship advances.

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A German man says bikers are dying for a ride in the sidecar of one of his Harleys — literally.

Joerg Grossmann said his prototype hearse — a special sidecar fitted to his motorcycle — made its first funeral run last month.