When Anthony Kaleb Phillips applied for a job at a Stillwater, Okla., construction site, his prospective boss didn’t call any of his references – he called the cops.

It seems Phillips, 20, had been at the work site the day before and was caught on a surveillance video helping himself to an expensive tool and other valuable items from an employee’s car, officials said.

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After a 54-year battle, George Kelly’s family finally got Britain’s top judges to overturn his conviction for the 1949 murder of a Liverpool theater manager. A key factor in their decision was a prosecution witness’s statement – which was not shared with Kelly’s lawyers – that another man had confessed to the slaying.

Unfortunately, Kelly is not around to celebrate. He was hanged for the crime in 1950.

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A man teed off folks when he sped past a crowd at an outdoor celebration near Waukeba, Wis., lost control on a curve and smashed into a road marker – in his golf cart.

“He was going way too fast,” a police official said.

The man, who was thrown from his golf cart and knocked out, was ticketed for drunken driving.

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A Horsham, Pa., mother wanted her 14-year-old daughter to have a good time partying after her middle school prom, so she told the parents of several other kids that she was inviting a bunch of youngsters to a sleepover at her house.

Then she rented a motel room under an assumed name, stocked it with alcohol and partied with the kids, cops said.

She “wanted a treat for these kids. Now we have a treat for her,” a prosecutor said after the misguided mom was charged with corrupting minors and released on $75,000 bail.

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Cops called for backup when a man, proclaiming, “I’m God,” started firing a sawed-off M-1 carbine on a Washington, D.C., street.

When he threw away the rifle and started stripping, cops moved in and released a police dog.

The naked man kicked the dog, the police tackled the man – and the dog bit one of the officers. The man was charged with assault. No charges were filed against the dog.