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A man was arrested after his house caught fire in Vero Beach, Fla., because deputies found that there were several active warrants out for his arrest. Investigators, who rushed to the scene, became suspicious when the man ran from them and back into the house which was in flames and deadbolted himself inside. He claimed later that he ran in there to rescue his dogs.

HEY, MAN, WHAT’S YOUR HURRY?: A man who walked out of a grocery store in South Euclid, Ohio, with $500 worth of merchandise he did not pay for expected to get into his friend’s car and make his getaway. But the friend apparently didn’t know that the guy was going to steal anything, so he took the car to a nearby car wash while the guy was in the store, and it was trapped inside when the robber came out.

HOLD IT RIGHT THERE, CRUMB FACE!: A man picked up two of the bags of chips that a thief had dropped on the ground as he fled after stealing them from a convenience store in Memphis, Tenn. Since the second man witnessed the theft and knew that the chips were stolen, he was charged with theft of merchandise when the cops saw him with crumbs on his face.

OH, THAT BREEZE FEELS GREAT!: A naked man crashed into several vehicles in Kulangoor, Australia, and fled the scene by jumping onto the side of a moving horse trailer on a Queensland highway. Police took him into custody “a short distance away.” They did not know why he was driving in the nude.

YOU KNOW WHAT, OFFICER? FORGET I SAID ANYTHING: A man called the police in Saginaw, Mich., to report he paid a prostitute for her services which she then failed to provide. He told the cops that he wanted his money back, but they arrested the both of them: her for prostitution and him for solicitation.

THAT’S IT, CANCEL MY MEMBERSHIP!: After a thief stole money from locked cars in the parking lot of a gym in Midland Park, N.J., one of the gymgoers installed a GoPro camera in his car, and watched from across the street for seven straight days as the thief entered his car and others to steal money. Turns out, it was the guy who owns the gym.

MORNIN’ OFFICER: After a night of heavy drinking, a young man headed to a McDonald’s in Worcestershire, England, for an early-morning snack on his step-mother’s three-wheel, mobility e-scooter, with a woman on the back, at 4 o’clock in the morning, and parked right next to a marked police cruiser. The cops followed him as he staggered into the restaurant and arrested him.

BUT PEOPLE SEEM TO LOVE IT: A woman who drove an ice cream truck was arrested in Slidell, La., because she was selling methamphetamine out of the vehicle.

WHERE ARE YOUR MANNERS?: A bear barged into a cafe in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., climbed up on the counter and started eating cookies. The cops came and chased the animal out of the building.

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