These careless Comic-Con fans could have ended up as Comic-Convicts.

Cops in Boca Raton, Fla., rushed in with guns drawn when citizens reported a “terrorist takeover” in progress at an upscale shopping strip.

The “terrorists” were simply young men wearing fake body armor and carrying fake weapons — and videotaping an action scene for the annual pop-culture comic-book convention.

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Hope she has better luck.

A 30-year-old Denver TV traffic-helicopter reporter named Amelia Earhart is planning an around-the-world flight, tracing the path her famous namesake was following in 1937 when she crashed somewhere in the Pacific and was never found.

The 21st-century Amelia — who says she shares a “common ancestry” with the pioneer — will pilot a two-engine turbo-prop plane on the two-week journey.

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A mortician outdid cops and a medical examiner in solving a slaying.

Investigators in Spring Lake, NC, declared that David Worley, 39, had died in a tragic car accident after his body was found near his crashed vehicle. His remains were even examined by cops and the area’s medical examiner.

But the mortician found stab wounds that the ME had missed, and the victim’s wife was arrested.

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He’s a huge fan of double-oh-oh-OH-OH-7!

A Canadian stroke victim has developed a rare condition that causes him to experience orgasmic sensations when he hears James Bond theme music.

The condition, called synesthesia, causes the brain to confuse senses.

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The newest weight-loss craze sweeping Japan is called the “Long Breath Diet,” in which people spend two minutes a day just concentrating on breathing and the pounds, allegedly, melt away.

The technique was invented by a actor-turned-diet-guru Miki Ryosuke, who claims he has lost five inches from his waist.

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