Town officials in Augusta, Mich., found a heap big pile of trouble behind an old abandoned house this week – more than 100 stinking buckets of human excrement.

It cost close to $15,000 for clean-up workers to remove the rotting waste, some of which was bursting through the containers in the summer heat, the Ann Arbor News reported.

World War II veteran Willard R. Growth was shocked this week when he was reunited with an old pal he lost during the conflict – his wallet.

Workers renovating barracks at Camp Roberts in California found about 25 wallets that had apparently been filched from unlucky soldiers and abandoned.

Most of the wallets had pictures and personal information – but no cash.

The town leaders of cash-strapped Mesa, Ariz., admit that spending $32,000 for a pair of spanking new bus shelters on Broadway Road wasn’t such a hot idea – mostly because there is no bus route on that street.

But the shelters are being used by folks fooled by the phantom stops.

“We see people there daily waiting for a bus until they notice the sign is there and they realize it’s not a working bus stop,” said one local.

Canada prides itself on its open immigration policy, but there are some refugees they won’t accept – American pigeons.

U.S. citizen Richard Colson, 56, was busted by border guards trying to smuggle four birds into Canada without proper health certificates and pleaded guilty to the smuggling in Calgary Thursday.

“[The guard] noticed the bulges in the man’s shirt and he cautioned him that he was going to frisk him,” Canada Customs and Revenue Agency spokeswoman Debbie Johnson said. “He didn’t have weapons – he had pigeons.”

America’s reputation for high health care costs may soon be topped by Germany, where a doctor tried to charge an English tourist girl $164 for putting a bandage on her scraped knee.

“It was only a graze,” said the 3-year-old’s dad, Ronald Kalb. “It’s cheeky. I’m not paying that.”