A drunk who was trying to sleep off the booze took a nap in a bank’s ATM lobby – with his horse snoozing next to him.

Wolfgang Heinrich, 40, had been riding his horse, Sammy in Wiesenburg, Germany, when he stopped off for a snort at a bar, which led to another and another.

When he left the tavern and realized he was too sloshed to stay in the saddle, he used his ATM card to enter a bank with Sammy, where they promptly went to sleep.

“It was a bit of a shock to find a man and a horse asleep,” said Stephan Hanelt, the customer who discovered them.

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A toy leopard left on a walkway ignited a panic in the Chinese city of Xiamen, where fleeing pedestrians caused a traffic jam that lasted until officials realized the kitty was fake.

“Dogs were scared and passers-by were running for their lives,” said a witness. “Some of them ran into traffic, causing a back-up.”

Cops even brought an anesthetist from the local zoo to the scene, but after a while, noticed the “leopard” wasn’t moving. “Then we realized it’s a toy,” said a police spokesman.

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School officials in Cologne, Germany, canceled plans to have teachers send text messages to the parents of truants – after many instructors confessed that they didn’t know how to use that technology.

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A man walked into a crowded London restaurant and chopped off his penis in front of stunned patrons.

The grisly incident was “extremely frightening and distressing for the many customers and staff in the restaurant at the time,” said a spokeswoman for the eatery, Zizzi.

Doctors were unable to reattach the organ.

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A man who, at age 90, wagered about $200 that he would live to be 100 has collected on that bet to the tune of nearly $50,000.

Alec Holden, of Surrey, England, made the 250-1 odds bet with legal bookie company William Hill on his birthday a decade ago.

Since then, “I’ve been careful. If I saw hooded groups from William Hill in the street, I avoided them,” quipped Holden, a retired engineer.

Filed under 4/25/07