For more than eight months, Billie Jo Hawks shared a cell with female inmates at Kentucky’s Meade County Detention Center.

It was only after being transferred to the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women – and facing a physical – that the convicted drug trafficker admitted he’s a man.

“Clearly procedures weren’t followed” during the mandatory jail-admission strip search, said a state correction official.

You could call it ash-inine, but please don’t tell Mayor Bloomberg.

A man from Palmer, Alaska, was slapped with a $60 summons for flicking cigarette ash out his pickup truck window on a near-empty highway.

A startled Troy Woods still had the cigarette butt in his hand when he was stopped and charged with littering.

Men really do drool over women.

That was the conclusion of scientists at the University of Chicago who examined the saliva of male students before and after they chatted with flirtatious female research assistants.

After five minutes of small talk, tests showed their testosterone levels had gone up 30 percent.

Build it and you will pass.

A professor at Florida International University in Miami gave his 50 architecture students a sink-or swim assignment – to walk across a 300-foot- wide campus lake using their ingenuity, but no propelling devices.

The winner did it in under two minutes with Styrofoam and duct-tape slippers.

A classmate who tried the crossing on a fiberglass-chicken wire-newspaper-torpedo contraption learned his idea was all wet.

Women searching for recyclables in a dump in Hermanus, South Africa, thought they had stumbled on a bomb when they heard a ticking noise coming from a bag.

Fearing an explosion, they alerted the dump manager.

He opened the bag and found a vibrator inside. The women, who had never seen a vibrator before, opted not to include it among their recyclables.