Weird BUT true

Rivals on and off the field. Houston leaders needed a city abbreviation to plaster on the George R. Brown Convention Center for when Super Bowl visitors come calling in five months.

They went with HTX, But not everyone is happy — because HTX looks a lot like Austin’s ATX.

“I don’t want a single smug Austinite kicking back with his craft beer and his big thick beard and his man bun, saying, ‘Look at those Houstonians, they gotta steal from us,’ ” Houstonian James Glassman complained. The fine is fine. Larry Murdock, a professor of entomology, finally returned “The Moths of the Limberlost,” a library book he checked out 60 years ago in Linton, Ind., at age 8.

He paid the $436.44 late fee, saying it was “the right thing to do.” And he has no regrets for holding on to the book so long — it’s about what he loves, “insects and, especially, moths.”

If anyone is missing a half-pound of marijuana, cops in the southern Minnesota town of Gaylord want to talk to you.

The packaged pot was left in someone’s mailbox, apparently sent to the wrong address. The surprised resident called the cops.

Where there’s a will to dodge parking tickets, there’s a way.

A New Orleans police officer came upon two tires — both with locked boots — on St. Charles Avenue.

The cop said he admired how the offender somehow got both booted tires off the car and then managed to haul the vehicle away.

Newport, Ore., cops are really hamming it up.

They rounded up a pig running loose around city streets — and then named him Mr. Boombastic, with plans to adopt.

“Secretly hoping no one claims #MrBoombastic so we can officially adopt him as our Dept mascot,” the department tweeted.

Sadly for the officers, the pig’s owner later came forward. David K. Li, Wires