If only we could get teens to work this hard at school.

A 16-year-old video-game fanatic collapsed and was hospitalized in Columbus, Ohio, after playing the popular military-simulation game Modern Warfare 3 for four days straight with only one break.

His Xbox was taken away by his mom, who at least must have been happy that he took a shower on his break.

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Who needs police dogs when you have a crime-fighting bird around?

A Washington state trooper wound up with a seagull sidekick when he picked up the injured bird on a highway and started driving it to a veterinarian.

Along the way a radio call came about a suspect who was on the loose after a traffic stop. The trooper, with the seagull riding along, rushed to the scene and helped collar the crook.

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Maybe these hoodlums are thinking of holding their own Olympics.

Cops in Albuquerque, NM, are stumped after snorkeling thieves stole the welded black vinyl lane-markers from the bottom of a filled swimming pool.

The 375 feet of markings had a value of about $2,000.

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A Florida man desperate to get his towed van out of impound managed to get past a guard dog with a Hollywood movie trick.

William Sherman Evans allegedly tossed raw meat into the yard to divert Fido’s attention, then climbed the fence, got to his van and then drove it through the lot’s locked gate.

He didn’t get far. Cops soon tracked him down.

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A Swedish good Samaritan got a “bad” reward for turning in a lost bicycle to police, so he tossed aside any sense of altruism and is now suing.

He got $6, but is contending he should get 10 percent of the value of the bike.

He estimates he should get $50, which would put the value of the bike at $500. Police say no way.