A Connecticut teacher was accused of dabbling in the three R’s: readin’, ’ritin’ and robbery.

Nicholas Negro, 35, reportedly tried to knock over a 7-Seven in Danbury wielding a hammer.

Crime watchers gave him an F for effort. Witnesses said he was quickly restrained by a store clerk and a customer and held for cops.

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Seattle’s PC police are bagging it.

The city’s Office of Civil Rights has ordered workers to not use the term “brown bag” because the office deemed it racially insensitive.

An official asserted: “The phrase ‘brown bag’ does bring up associations with the past when a brown bag was actually used . . . to determine if people’s skin color was light enough.” Really??!

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A Montreal mom taking her toddler home from the hospital on a bus late at night didn’t have the required $3 in coins to put in the fare box.

She had only a $5 bill, which the driver said he couldn’t accept or break into change.

Holding the crying child in her arms, she refused to get off.

A transit-police car rolled up, and coldhearted cops pulled mother and child off the bus, slapped her with a $219 summons and left them by the side of the road.

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China copies everything — even Paris.

It has built a huge replica of the City of Lights called “Tianducheng,” complete with hundreds of Parisian-style buildings, a small-scale Champs-Élysées and a nearly full-sized Eiffel Tower.

The nouveau Paris is so large, the Chinese claim 10 million people could live there. But only 2,000 citizens have moved in since the ribbon-cutting a few years ago.

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A Palestinian prisoner somehow got his sperm smuggled out to his wife.

Abdul Kareem al-Rimawi, in jail for attacking an Israeli soldier, got the sperm out to his wife and they had a baby boy.