Most lawmen are interested in upgrading their equipment – but not Sheriff Ben Johnson of Volusia County, Fla.

He just bought a 1962 Ford Galaxie like the one driven by Mayberry Sheriff Andy Taylor and his bumbling deputy Barney Fife on “The Andy Griffith Show.”

A big Mayberry fan, Johnson used $7,100 in seized drug money to buy and ship the four-door cruiser from Minnesota.

Here’s a novel idea for the city’s bean-counters.

New Zealand plans to tax its farmers for the flatulence of their livestock – with the money collected going to research ways to make the animals less windy (and combat global warming).

Milton Hospital in Milton, Mass., has set up visiting hours for the crowds flocking to see what many believe is the image of the Virgin Mary on a third-floor window.

Hospital officials are putting a tarp over the window for most of the day so patients don’t have to fight the crush to get in.

The tarp comes down daily from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. for those who want to view the phenomenon.

Officials say the image formed after a sealant around the window ruptured, allowing heat and moisture to leave a chemical deposit.

It was a honey of a traffic jam.

It happened when a tractor-trailer transporting 100,000 honeybees got a flat tire on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Cumberland County and its winged cargo started taking flight.

Fearing shock and awe and more than a few stings, cops closed down the turnpike while firefighters used chemical foam to destroy the bees.

A professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, believes the 50-ton stones at Stonehenge were arranged in the shape of a human vulva.

Anthony Perks, an endocrinologist and professor of gynecology, theorizes the ancient monument on England’s Salisbury Plain “could represent the opening by which the earth mother gave birth to the plants and animals on which ancient people so depended.”