Clyde Lamar Pace II of Des Moines, Iowa, went to court to face drug and traffic charges and got himself into even more trouble.

When the 18-year-old was asked to empty his pockets at a courthouse security post, he took out a baggie of marijuana, cops said. Realizing his goof, he allegedly fled from deputies – right into a locked revolving door.

Officials have added drug possession and resisting arrest to the charges against him.

Firefighters in Niles, Ohio, answered an alarm – and then stopped in their tracks and watched a house burn when they realized it was just outside city limits in neighboring Weathersfield.

“You don’t just sit there and watch someone’s livelihood burn,” said homeowner Jason Radcliff, who was shocked when the Niles firefighters waited nearby for Weathersfield’s part-time fire department to get to the scene.

Hot pants for women soccer players? That’s what Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, the international soccer federation, is proposing – to the outrage of women players.

“Female players are pretty” and wearing tighter shorts would promote “a more female aesthetic,” Blatter said.

British player Pauline Cope scoffed, “Typical of a bloke.”

Here’s a bank robber who got away with the money – but not his demand note.

Eugene Golden of Parkersburg, W. Va., had made a clean getaway from a local bank – with $21,000 in cash – after taping a demand note to a drive-through window, according to police.

But he was caught a short time later, when he returned to the bank to retrieve the note, cops said.

A convicted burglar who fled a California jail 36 years ago was found living quietly in Tomball, Texas.

Police in the Houston suburb said fugitive Donald Johnson, 60, eluded authorities for years even though he apparently never bothered to create a new identity for himself.

California lawmen eventually caught up with him after he gave his real name and Social Security number when he bought a trailer, Texas police said.