Leave it to archaeologists from a party school to find a 1,000-year-old brewery.

Archaeologists from the University of Florida, working with researchers from Chicago’s Field Museum, have unearthed a pre-Incan brewery in the Peruvian Andes that once mass-produced beer.

A rabbit escaped almost certain death after its teenage owner taped a powerful M-1000 firecracker to it, lit the fuse and tossed it into a lake in Castro Valley, Calif.

Fortunately, the firecracker didn’t blow up.

The rabbit was pulled out of the drink and survived the near hare-razing experience.

Bet you can’t guess the bunny’s name – Lucky.

George Lott, an 89-year-old Alzheimer’s sufferer, was arrested for shoplifting, handcuffed and jailed after he walked out of a store in Venice, Fla., with a box of diarrhea medicine in his pocket.

But Lott finally got some relief – the state attorney’s office dropped the charges against him after consulting his doctor.

A government scientist was arrested, frisked, cuffed and detained for three hours for finishing a candy bar on her way into a Metro station in downtown Washington, D.C.

Stephanie Willett was on an escalator descending into the station when a transit cop warned her that she faced arrest if she didn’t finish the candy before entering the station.

She nodded, put the rest of the candy in her mouth and tossed the wrapper into a trash can.

Willett says she was busted after the cop followed her into the station and asked her for ID and she snapped, “Don’t you have some other crimes you have to take care of?”

Speaking of subways . . . a poster campaign urging riders not to eat foul-smelling food on the crowded London Underground has triggered a diplomatic incident.

Angry Italians, including the Italian ambassador, claim the poster – which shows a heavyset Mediterranean-looking man lounging in a train surrounded by hams, salamis and strings of garlic – is offensive to Italians.

Underground officials have promised to pull down the posters.