A New Mexico teen convicted of endangering a 4-year-old girl by feeding her laxatives is to be sentenced by a very appropriate jurist – Judge Mary Nell Crapitto.

Kelly Wagner faces up to a year behind bars for giving Ex-Lax to the preschooler in a child-care class at Santa Fe HS because she didn’t like her attitude.

The child was ill for several hours later at home, but suffered no lasting physical effects. But the case has sparked endless toilet jokes around town because of the judge’s name.

A woman who blasted her hubby in the groin with a shotgun says it was all part of a playful game gone wrong.

Susan Winkler, 44, of Green Bay, Wis., says she and Brian, 30, had played “gun-in-the-groin” before – always with an unloaded weapon.

But on May 7, she says she forgot the gun was loaded and fired. Brian is now in critical condition and Susan, charged with recklessly endangering safety, faces up to five years in the slammer.

A cheeky burglar whose victim shot at him returned moments later to steal her underwear, cops in Nebraska say.

The 32-year-old thief disturbed the woman when he broke into her mobile home in North Platte through a window. The 49-year-old victim grabbed a pistol and fired it in his direction. He wasn’t injured.

The suspect fled from the back door while the woman ran to a friend’s house to call cops.

Officers say they caught the man leaving the trailer with his pockets full of the woman’s underwear.

A law banning an Ohio town’s dogs, cats and hamsters from going to the bathroom outside – and also in private – has finally been changed.

The ordinance, passed more than 20 years ago in Cuyahoga Falls and then forgotten, prohibited pets from defecating anywhere and carried a $100 fine.

It was recently rediscovered when a resident complained about a neighbor’s pooch making a mess.

“The ordinance was written stupidly. The pets have been going anyway,” town lawyer Virgil Arrington admitted. The town has now repealed the ban, although pooper-scoopers now must be used.

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