Weird BUT true

Bambi, watch out. The Erie, Pa., race track that closed for two days after deer invaded the grounds — and one even jumped into a race — is fighting back.

Presque Isle Downs reopened on Wednesday with higher fencing and an earlier firstrace time — of 3:05 p.m. rather than 5:25 p.m. — hoping to outsmart the nightowl deer.

This beauty pageant couldn’t get any uglier.

Molly Lybrook, 17, was declared winner of the Winslow (Maine) Miss Fourth of July Pageant on Saturday.

But after she was crowned, organizers said they discovered a miscount — which meant 14yearold Caitlin Grenier was really the winner.

Molly is refusing to share the title, saying, “If it truly was a mistake, then I‘m sorry but that’s something the person who made the mistake has to pay for, not me — the winner.”

Well, so much for Miss Congeniality.

As the song says, it never rains in Southern California.

Just 8.52 inches of precipitation has fallen on downtown Los Angeles over the previous 12 months, the National Weather Service said.

And over the past four years, just 29.14 inches have fallen on LA, marking the driest fouryear span in recorded history.

Two shoplifters got away with $476 worth of grub from a Publix store in Orlando, Fla.

But they left behind two 11yearolds who ratted out the alleged thieves — Jessica Barker, 31, and Kristen Grodetz, 25, Osceola County sheriff ’s deputies said.

The pen really is mightier than the sword.

A man, agitated when editors at the Apopka Chief newspaper in Apopka, Fla., turned him away, returned with a samurai sword he waved at editors and police.

Terry Butcher, 52, was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault, cops said.