The swans in Central Park aren’t the only ones dying. More than 100 living on a lake in Oakland, Calif., have died unnatural deaths in the past two years.

But while the New York deaths remain a mystery, the cause of the California swan slaughter is known – lead poisoning.

The swans swallowed some of the millions of lead shotgun pellets that litter the lake bottom near a sportsmen’s club.

A year after Neil and Colleen Broe, of Levittown, Pa., were named Bucks County’s foster parents of the year, they’ve been arrested for endangering the welfare of two toddlers in their care – a year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy.

Police say the couple tied the youngsters’ wrists and torsos with duct tape, and sometimes taped their ankles to their crib rails.

Why? The foster mom claimed it was “to prevent them from taking their diapers off,” according to a police affidavit.

A Michigan man who spent 17 hours afloat in the Gulf of Mexico after falling off the cruise ship doesn’t remember how he landed in the drink.

“The last thing I remember was me and my buddy talking to some girls in the casino around midnight,” said Tim Sears, 31.

“The next thing I knew I woke up in the water.”

Sears was picked up by a passing cargo ship.

Two wannabe Miami entrepreneurs have put together a display of 1 million toothpicks in the belief that people will pay $1 each to see what a pile of so many little wood slivers look like.

It took Anton Solar (a.k.a. Mr. Toothpicks) and his pal Frank eight months, two weeks and two days to do the painstaking counting – during which they discovered that most boxes purporting to contain 800 picks actually contain about 714.

Solar is now trying to figure out where to showcase his toothpicks. How about next to a display of 1 million hors d’oeuves?

Washington state has installed special red plastic containers in the public restrooms aboard its 29 ferries – for the disposal of used syringes.

It seems that ferry workers – and some passengers who root through garbage bins for newspapers – feared being stuck by needles tossed in with the regular trash.