A podiatrist has been busted for allegedly billing Medicare for patients with no feet – and, for that matter, no pulse.

Authorities in Augusta, Ga., said Dr. Russell Ellicott filed $400,000 in claims for patients he couldn’t have possibly treated: amputees and dead people.

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Cows helped herd a fugitive murder suspect straight into the long arms of the law in Tennessee.

As Parker Ray Elliott, suspected of blowing away his ex-wife and daughter, hid in the woods near Columbia, a posse came across five cows looking where they shouldn’t be looking.

“I knew those cows should have been looking at me, since I had just come into the area,” said Shane Petty, a member of the posse.

“But they were looking over into the woods, so I knew that’s where he was.”

Petty credited his degree in agriculture for helping him read the cattle’s behavior.

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A 95-year-old Kansas native turned into Supergranny when she held down a 30-year-old thief who’d just swiped two diamond rings from a jewelry store.

Sada Munkres raced into action when she spotted the theft in Colby – and only hurt a finger on her left hand while bringing her man down.

“I guess I am OK, as much as a 95-year-old lady can be,” said the feisty crimefighter.

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A rooster has made his home outside the unlikeliest of places – a fast-food chicken restaurant.

And employees of Chick-fil-A in Bluffton, S.C., are so taken with the bird, they’ve started feeding him bread and biscuits – but no chicken, of course.

“It would be gross to feed him his own kind,” explained manager Carlton Beall.

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Mowing the lawn nearly proved fatal for Dave Morris, who twice ran over a live World War II grenade and even kicked it out of the way.

Authorities in Clifton Beach, Australia, say it’s nothing less than a miracle that Morris wasn’t blown to smithereens.

“I remembered thinking, ‘This is a strange-looking rock,’ ” Morris recalled.