Weird BUT true

Santa’s got something for everyone — even fish.

“Scuba Santa” handles the morning feed at the California Academy of Sciences’ Philippine Coral Reef tank in San Francisco.

The volunteer diver, dressed as the jolly old elf, explained to visitors that even Santa will “take a tropical vacation or two.”

A Kentucky man’s used car came with an unusual option.

The motorist who bought the vehicle at an Ohio auto auction was driven to distraction by a rattling noise.

Trying to stop the racket led him to discover two pounds of heroin in a hidden compartment under the front seat.

He can bear it, as long as the patient is under anesthesia.

A veterinary dentist performed a root canal on a 400-pound American black bear named Clark at the Palm Beach Zoo last week.

Clark’s canine tooth was fractured and had a cavity, which Dr. Jan Bellows was able to repair.

Heavy metal helped Florida cops grab two Grinches who made off with a family’s Christmas presents.

Lakeland residents saw two men stealing gifts from a neighbor’s home. They called cops, who chased the men to another home three miles away.

The owner of that house wielded a metal pipe to chase the men away. Cops soon found them cowering under another house nearby.

An 8-year-old British girl offered to help BBC Radio replace Big Ben’s chimes when the venerable clock undergoes repairs next year.

Phoebe Hanson wrote to the BBC offering to do a live version of the famed “bongs.” BBC editor Roger Sawyer praised Phoebe’s “imaginative” idea but reminded her of the obstacles.

“You’d have to rush in after school each day and at the weekend, rush home for tea, homework, a bit of chillin’, then a quick sleep,” he cautioned.