Pretty soon, it’s going to be impossible to drop a dime on anyone in Chambers, Neb.

The phone company wants to remove the small town’s only pay phone — which last year took in just $3.35 in coins.

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God and gasoline fueled an exciting Easter weekend in Decatur, Ala.

The City Champions of Church gave away $20 of gasoline to 100 motorists, and many waited hours for the free top-off.

Pastor Anthony Lovejoy, who helped pump gas, called the event “something exciting, something that the people need and something actually to let the community know that the church was there as well.”

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A former Pennsylvania state trooper is lucky he’s getting only house arrest and probation.

Douglas Sversko, 44, got the wrist slap for sending a video of himself dancing in the nude to an investigator posing as a 13-year-old girl.

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Here’s the easiest way to win a stair-climbing race — take the elevator.

Organizers of the American Lung Association’s 62-floor race and fund-raiser in LA were shocked when winner Miguel Larios, 31, made the climb in just 7 minutes and 45 seconds.

But then building surveillance cameras caught him taking the elevator.

“We looked at this person’s body and his physique, and we knew he did not have the physique of an elite stair-climber,” said ninth-place finisher Mark Trahanovsky, 53.

“He wasn’t sweating a lot; he wasn’t tired. He was wearing basketball shoes.”

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A child’s Easter-egg hunt nearly turned into an explosive history lesson.

Organizers of the pre-school event in Holford, England, called it off after one kid found a grenade believed to be a World War II relic.

The bomb squad didn’t take any chances, evacuating the area and blowing up the hand grenade.

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