You can’t blame Betty and George English if they ask for their money back on the “lakeside” condo they bought for the view.

That’s because Lake Chesterfield, a manmade 23-acre watering hole in suburban St. Louis, disappeared in a few days, swallowed up by a sinkhole.

“It’s disheartening, getting out on your deck and seeing this,” George said.

“One day it’s a beautiful lake and now, bingo, it’s gone. Empty, I mean like boom.”

He’s some birdbrain.

A California man who attacked his pet macaw, breaking its beak and leg, has been ordered to do 120 days of community service and take anger-management classes.

Anthony Ellis, 53, punched Johnny the bird and slammed its head against the deck of his boat outside the Newport Harbor Elks Lodge, where the parrot was the mascot.

The bird survived the March 2003 attack and was adopted by an animal-care agency.

A Kentucky man was busted for drunken driving – on a bicycle.

Terry Murrell was nabbed after he was seen weaving down the middle of a Hopkinsville road.

Murrell was charged with operating a non-motor vehicle under the influence and not having lights on his bike.

You’re not going to bee-lieve what happened to a 12-year-old British girl.

Alice Gilmore parked her bicycle to do a little shopping and came back to find it swarming with 12,000 bees.

Alice and her mom, Angela, had to call in some beekeepers, who trapped the bees in a box and took them to a hive in nearby Petersfield, Hampshire.

For Deidre Lee and Nicholas Yacavone, the prom was a sticky situation.

And they wouldn’t have had it any other way.

The teens wore duct-tape outfits they made to their prom at Albertus Magnus HS in upstate Bardonia.

They donned the tacky fashions to enter a nationwide scholarship contest sponsored by a duct-tape manufacturer.

Lee said the only bad thing about wearing a duct-tape gown was the noise it made when she walked around.