Weird BUT true

Subway escalators are having their ups and downs.

And commuters moving at different paces are to blame, say managers of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system that serves San Francisco and Oakland.

Because some riders stand right while others walk left, the escalators are facing “uneven wear” and need premature repairs, BART reported.

A new “video store” recently opened in Los Angeles.

The throwback business in Echo Park has 14,000 VHS copies of the 1996 Tom Cruise hit “Jerry Maguire.” But don’t try to rent one.

The site, a pop-up work of art capturing the phenomenon of video rental stores, will also be a concert venue.

So, hoo, hoo, hoo’s the best friend of owls in Massachusetts?

Whately police say that would be Sgt. Donald Bates — who, for the second time in three months, saved the life of an injured owl.

Bates scooped up the wounded bird in the middle of a roadway Tuesday and took it to the same rehab center in Conway where he’d brought a different injured owl in October.

A New Hampshire driver stopped for going 91 mph in a snowstorm told cops she was late for an appointment — to have a new car stereo installed.

Anastacia Hocking, 21, was arrested Wednesday for alleged reckless driving on Interstate 93, where the speed limit is between 55 mph and 65 mph. Cops said the highway was covered with snow and slush.

A cargo spill in Wisconsin turned a highway into Candy Land.

Thousands of red Skittles, being transported in a cardboard box on a flatbed truck for cattle feed, covered the Dodge County road.

Sheriff Dale Schmidt, who first thought his deputies were “playing a joke,” said rain destroyed the box and unleashed the candy, which highway crews cleaned up Thursday.