New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

Ale-elujah! Cans of beer miraculous­ly fell from the sky after a truck crashed on an overpass in Colorado and spilled the suds onto a roadway below.

The semi-truck rolled onto its side on a Denver interstate, causing hundreds of Miller Genuine Draft cans to rain onto traffic below.

Kids are sweet on a bizarre new ice cream that’s chemically altered not to melt.

Part science experiment, part tasty treat, Gastronaut Ice Cream is freeze-dried, comes in bar form and crumbles in your hand.

But once licked, it transforms into the “exact same sweet and creamy ice cream you’ve known all your life,” according to the company.

About 100 people flocked to a funeral for a war vet they had never met after word spread that there was nobody to mourn him.

Stewart Cooney, 95, of Leeds, England, outlived all of his friends and family. So a caregiver made it his mission to prevent a “lonely funeral” by telling Cooney’s heroic life story on social media, inspiring strangers to attend.

Only 1 percent of funerals are not attended by family or friends, according to the US National Associatio­n of Funeral Directors.

A German novelist who penned a story about a robbery gone wrong was arrested for trying to pull off the same crime.

Life imitated art for the scandalous scribe, who was strapped for cash, just like a character in his book, according to court papers.

He donned a mask, whipped out a fake gun and demanded more than $43,000 at a bank in Leipzig.

Shoppers in Canada are furious over a toy shop that charges more for white dolls than black ones.

The Toys ‘R’ Us in Calgary charged $24.99 for a white You & Me Kissing Baby Doll and only $22.99 for the same doll with darker skin, angry parents said.

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