Fire safety seems to have gone up in smoke in Eatontown, N.J., where cops have charged a fire chief with stealing emergency equipment and auctioning it off on eBay.

Brian McLaughlin, 30, allegedly sold nine pagers and one emergency radio for about $900.

At least he didn’t cheat his customers. One bidder was so pleased with the goods, he wrote, “Items exactly as represented. Fast shipping. Great to do business with.”

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Texas daredevil Jackie Bibby stuffed the tails of nine live rattlesnakes in his mouth to beat his own world record.

The 52-year-old daredevil, who performed the slithery stunt behind his mobile home in Whiskey Flats said, “I think I could do 12 or 13, but probably no more. My mouth is only so big.”

Bibby also holds the world record for sitting in a bathtub with the most live snakes – 75.

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You may wonder why a San Francisco aquarium threw a big birthday party for an Australian lungfish named Methuselah.

Turns out Methuselah arrived at the aquarium in 1938 as a fully grown adult – which makes him more than 65, and the oldest fish in captivity.

The 3-foot-long, 40-pound fish is known for his sly grin, which “probably comes from the wisdom of the ages,” said John McCosker, director emeritus of the Steinhart Aquarium.

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A man who held up the Oak Valley Community Bank in Modesto, Calif. forgot to cut eye holes in his mask and had to keep lifting the corner of the cloth to see as he fumbled his way through the heist.

Unable to see, he grabbed some cash then crashed through the glass front door to make his escape.

You might say he robbed them blind.

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Officials at the University of Minnesota have come up with an idea to keep people from swiping the campus Christmas tree – and it really stinks.

They’ve sprayed the large balsam fir with the scent of skunk.

“Why skunk? Can you think of something worse?” said Less Potts, grounds superintendent of the Twin Cities campus.