Weird BUT true
Wrong coke. A massive stash of cocaine worth more than $55 million was discovered hidden among bags in a Coca-Cola plant in Signes, France.
The 800 pounds of drugs were among items delivered from Costa Rica.
That bites. A correction officer in Lock Haven, Pa., was charged in the death of a police dog who succumbed after being left in a hot car.
Sgt. Chad Holland was charged with animal cruelty for the incident in July when a 2-year-old drug-detecting dog named Totti died after being left in a hot car for more than two hours.
More than 160,000 people signed an online petition urging authorities to fire the officer after Totti’s death.
Kiss and shoot. A mom in Oklahoma shot a 31-year-old man because she caught him locking lips with her teenage daughter.
Valerie Fowler of Paoli was charged with assault with a deadly weapon after she shot the man in her 16-year-old daughter’s bedroom.
The predator was airlifted to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.
Free to Yelp. A Texas judge tossed a $1 million lawsuit brought by a pet-sitting biz that sued over a one-star Yelp review.
The owner of Prestigious Pets in Plano claimed that the couple defamed him when they wrote a scathing review claiming the sitters overfed their fish.
The judge ruled that the couple was exercising their right of free speech.
Construction workers in Iceland accidentally buried an “enchanted” rock while building a highway — and were forced to unearth the stone after facing the wrath of angry “elves.”
The elves are suspected of causing a series of misfortunes, including floods and injuries, when the so-called “elfin lady stone” was covered with debris.
Elves are part of life in Iceland, and construction sites are often moved to avoid them.