Weird BUT true

A California scientist has named a new plant after rock legend Jimi Hendrix, who died in 1970.

San Diego State University graduate student Mark Dodero discovered the plant in Baja California while listening to Hendrix’s song “Voodoo Child.”

The plant, with pinkishwhite flowers, has been christened Dudleya hendrixii, or “Hendrix’s liveforever.”

Twin brothers Kenny and Lenny Stewart, 48, failed to make a clean getaway after they allegedly stole 180 bars of soap from an Absecon, NJ, supermarket.

They were slowed by running into a trash can and then a shopping cart before being collared by an officer who just happened to be in the parking lot.

One woman’s dreams of smuggling meth into the United States from Mexico turned into a nightmare.

Feds busted her at a New Mexico crossing when they found her hiding liquid methamphetamine inside Native American-style dreamcatchers.

The dreamcatcher rings were made of rubber tubing filled with meth. Humbug! A Pennsylvania school district canceled a fifthgrade performance of “A Christmas Carol” at Centerville Elementary.

Principal Tom Kramer said the show was taking away too many hours from reading, ’riting and ’rithmetic.

“The teachers agreed that they did not want our students to be put at a disadvantage . . . in preparation for the sixth grade,” he said.

A 6-foot kangaroo jumped through a window — and wound up in bed with an Australian couple.

“It landed on the bed only a matter of a few feet from my wife’s head,” said Bill McConnell, 77. “I picked up a chair, like a lion tamer, to protect myself just in case.”

The animal tore through the house for about 10 minutes before finding its way out a back door.