Honesty is the best policy.

Just ask Rachelle Thomas of Cincinnati, who told a judge that she couldn’t serve on a jury because she had to take her son to the doctor – forgetting that she’d just written on her juror’s questionnaire that she had no kids.

Judge Dennis Helmick threw Thomas, 31, in jail for contempt, telling her: “I understand you had a research project.

“If you would have said that, I would have taken it into consideration.

“We trust jurors to be honest.”

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Along with his urine, Deputy Carl Brown’s career has gone down the drain.

The 40-year-old Orange County, Fla., sheriff’s deputy has resigned after he was caught by a security camera taking a leak in the elevator of a building.

Our advice, Mr. Brown – next time, zip it!

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“Stick ’em up” took on a whole new meaning in Rio de Janeiro, when six pistol-packing men robbed a drugstore of all its anti-impotence pills.

“They were pretty indiscriminate about the brands,” the manager said, explaining that the bandits took more than a hundred packages of Viagra, Cialis and Levitra worth $2,600.

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An 18-year-old man visiting his brother in a Swedish prison swapped clothes with him and traded places so the sibling could escape.

Authorities at the Kronenberg Jail said the only noticeable difference between the two was a birthmark on the face of the one doing time, but that was taken care of with an ink pen.

Now they’re both behind bars.

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British naval brass admitted paying the cost of a boob job – for a male sailor.

The seaman, who is in his 20s, had a breast-reduction operation to remove saggy “man boobs” after losing a lot of weight.

Navy officials insisted the surgery was carried out for “serious clinical reasons.”