WEIRD WORLD

WHATANASS: The owner of a pricey McLaren sports car is going to court to try to get a donkey owner to pony up for an alleged 5,000 euros (£4,385) of damage caused when the animal chomped the backside of the vehicle.

Germany’s dpa news agency reported that the McLaren owner filed a complaint in Giessen state court after the donkey’s owner refused reimbursement for the incident last September.

At the time, police posited that the animal may have mistaken the orange vehicle, which was parked up against his enclosure, for a giant carrot when he bit the back, damaging the paint job and a carbonfibre panel. SKUNKINTROUBLE:A

Maine police officer put his nose in harm’s way during a wildlife rescue.

York Police Department officer David McKinnon came upon a skunk with its head stuck inside a cup while on patrol.

He decided to help despite the high risk of a malodorous outcome.

PIG IN CUSTODY: A pot-bellied pig that had been on the loose for weeks in a Virginia neighbourhood has been rounded up by police.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that the pig had become a familiar sight in Henrico’s Twin Hickory subdivision as it scurried around the neighbourhood.

Police finally caught the pig after it briefly held up traffic in a busy street. JOURNEY’S END:

The grave of a British soldier killed in Italy in the Second World War will be rededicated by his twin sons, who, unbeknown to him, were born just 22 days before his death.

Edward and Sydney Graham, 74, have spent a lifetime wondering what happened to their Royal Irish Fusilier father Edward, who was killed in Sicily in 1943. Years of research and work by Edward eventually paid off when he discovered his father, from Chopwell, County Durham, had been buried in Catania War Cemetery.