Politicians fed up with drunken hooligans tearing through Daytona Beach, Fla., during spring break placed signs on the city’s trash cans that read, “It’s all about respect.”

In a single night, thieves swiped all 300 signs.

“I can understand how some students would have taken one or two or maybe 10,” said astonished Mayor Yvonne Scarlett-Golden. “But to have taken 300!”

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An Oklahoma woman trying to set up a drug deal on the phone was busted after she dialed the wrong number and reached her former parole officer instead, cops say.

“She thought she was talking to her local drug dealer. I am a bit of a joker, so I was playing along,” said the parole officer, Doug Canant, of his call from Patricia Michel of Durant.

Canant, who allegedly thought she’d set up a deal to buy methamphetamines, now faces two years to life in prison.

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Young Daegan Goodman really stinks – and he won a prize for it.

The 10-year-old from Montpelier, Vt., scored first prize in the annual Rotten Sneaker Contest for having the foulest-smelling footwear.

Daegan’s “recipe” for success? “I just wear ’em, sweat in ’em, play sports – I just try,” he beamed.

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Dirty dancing may pack ’em in at the movies – but try it at Bend HS in Oregon, and the school dance gets shut down.

Last weekend’s Sadie Hawkins dance was cut off at 10 p.m., after students persisted in dancing close enough to touch hips. “Quite honestly, it’s like having sex with your clothes on,” explained school activities director Mary McDermott.

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A Frenchman who said he was traumatized by the Spain bombings was convicted of trying to run over a pedestrian he mistook for Osama bin Laden.

The 35-year-old, identified only as Pierre, was sentenced in Montpellier to a three-month suspended sentence. The man he tried to run over was unharmed.

Pierre’s lawyer, David Mendel, said his client was the “victim of a hallucination” while driving Monday through Montpellier’s historic center.

“If it were [bin Laden], we would have won $5 million,” Mendel said, referring to the reward. (s, lcf)