Shhh! Don’t wake up the person who lives in this house!

Authorities in Brandon, Florida, say that three teenage would-be burglars did just that by inadvertently ringing a doorbell. According to deputies in Hillsborough County, the teens were attempting to pick a lock with a pocket knife when one of them hit the doorbell. Deputies say the teens ran off when they were confronted by homeowner Samuel Sanchez. Three suspects were taken into custody moments later, including one hiding in a trash bin.

Three teens in Mungallala, Australia, who police say attempted to steal fuel from the fuel shed of a sawmill there have been charged with arson after they burned the place down– all because they had the brilliant idea to use a cigarette lighter as a lantern.

According to police, a 19-year-old, a 17-year-old, and a 15-year-old, all males, were charged after a fire there early on the morning of February 26.

They say that at 2:30 AM, our troublesome trio entered the Mungallala Sawmill on the Warrego Highway and used a lighter to see how much fuel they had taken from a storage shed.

Bad idea. The ensuing fire destroyed the fuel shed, sawmill, and sawmill equipment and injured one of the teens.

The three are scheduled to appear in Mitchell Magistrates Court on April 24.

Let this be a lesson to anyone reading this who is thinking about a similar heist: If you absolutely have to steal fuel from a sawmill at 2:30 in the morning, use a flashlight!

Apparently for one guy in Portland, Oregon, being denied the privilege to dance qualifies as an emergency or a crime in progress.

On the night of February 23, 43-year-old Edgar Dieguez-Lopez reported his “emergency” to a 911 operator.

His crisis? The Caribe nightclub on Southwest Canyon Road refused to let him in. The operator spent several minutes with him, even bringing in a Spanish translator: He called 911 because he said, “I cannot get inside.”

Police responded to his call and arrested the man on charges of improper use of 911 and drug possession.

A teenager in St. Petersburg, Florida, has been arrested for impersonating a cop — for the second time in as many months.

It happened when he attempted to pull over a real undercover officer in an unmarked car, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.

Eighteen-year-old Hai Hoang was charged with two felony counts.

Hoang had been watched by the sheriff’s office since January 25, when a South Pasadena driver reported he was stopped by a man driving a Crown Victoria, accusing him of reckless driving. He later learned the suspect was impersonating an officer, and positively identified him as Hoang.

On the morning of February 23, an undercover detective noticed Hoang driving erratically, northbound on 49th Street.

“At one point, the undercover detective who was in his vehicle ended up in front of the suspect’s vehicle,” said sheriff’s spokesperson Cecilia Barreda. “The suspect attempted to stop him.”

The undercover detective then drove into a parking and with the assistance of other undercover detectives arrested Hoang on two counts of impersonating a law enforcement officer.

Hoang was arrested on this exact same charge on December 22, 2006, a day after police allege that he drove a retired police car, with emergency lights and siren activated, behind a Sunstar ambulance on an emergency call. A policeman was suspicious of the vehicle, noted the license plate and went to Hoang’s address the next day.

At the time, detectives found a 22-pistol, a can of pepper spray, a badge and a hand-held scanner in his car. They were seized as evidence.

According to the cop that Hoang attempted to pull over, Hoang tried to justify his actions by saying that he was “clearing traffic for Sunstar” and later saying that he was “just horsing around.”

A gas station robber in Palmerston North, New Zealand, forgot only one thing — to pull his mask over his face.

Police there released surveillance video of a man wanted on suspicion the aggravated robbery of a Mobil gas station on Pioneer Highway in the city early on the morning of February 21.

The man, whose weapon of choice was an iron bar, demanded cash and cigarettes in full view of the surveillance camera, and only then did he remember to pull up his mask over his face.

“His method of operation suggests he is not security camera-savvy, or maybe has not committed a lot of offenses of this nature,” Detective Glen Jackson told a local news agency. The man took cigarettes and cash from the till and filled his bag with tobacco and cigarettes before running off.

Police in Murray, Kentucky, say that a middle school teacher who was trying to buy marijuana was arrested after she mistakenly text-messaged a state trooper instead of a dealer.

Trooper Trevor Pervine was eating dinner with his wife and parents to celebrate a birthday when his cell phone started buzzing with messages about a pot purchase.

Initially, Pervine thought that the messages were from friends playing a joke on him, Kentucky State Police spokesman Barry Meadows said. But a couple of phone calls ruled out that theory, and Pervine responded to set up a meeting, Meadows said.

According to authorities, 34-year-old Ann Greenfield showed up at the meeting place and found Pervine and other cops waiting for her.

“She learned her lesson: Program your dealers into your phone,” Meadows said.

Greenfield, who teaches at Murray Middle School, was charged with conspiracy to  traffic in controlled substances within 1,000 feet of a school, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, Meadows said.

She was suspended with pay pending the outcome of an investigation  the Murray Independent School District said in a statement posted February 23 on the district’s website.

A man in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who called a cab to get a ride to the racetrack made another stop that landed him in the slammer.

Thirty-nine-year-old Fredrick Holyfield was arrested the afternoon of February 21 after he held up a bank there, according to Detective Kathy Collins, a police spokeswoman.

As his Yellow Cab driver waited outside the RBC Centura Bank, located at 100 North Federal Highway, Holyfield came up to a teller and handed her a note demanding money, Collins said.

“The teller realized it was a robbery and handed over the money,” said Collins, adding that a few thousand dollars was taken.

Included in the batch of cash was a stack of $20 bills with a dye pack.

Just as Holyfield left the bank, the dye pack exploded — leaving the man’s pants covered in red dye.

The cabbie, realizing that something was up, refused to drive Holyfield.

Holyfield ran off, leaving some of the stolen cash in the car.

But soon afterward, he returned to retrieve the money that he had left behind.

By that time, the cops had shown up and arrested Holyfield just a block away from the bank.

Needless to say, he didn’t get to the racetrack.