Weird BUT true

Michigan officials are flushed with pleasure after folks heeded their Super Bowl warning.

They feared mass flushing in Macomb County on Sunday could have overwhelmed a broken sewer line. But the water system survived the mass toilet break at halftime.

“Kudos to all the people in the 11 communities in Macomb County who I know restricted their water usage,” Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller said.

Looks like this window was a little too clean.

A small fire in Branford, Conn., was sparked when sunshine through a very clear window ignited an ornamental glass ball, authorities said.

Smoke filled the home, but no one was injured in the refracted-light blaze, officials said. She forgot they’d check up. Katherine Kempson, 49, was busted for allegedly creating a fake $1.2 million check, using a logo from Members First Federal Credit Union she found online, cops said.

The Carroll Township, Pa., woman tried to use the faux check to buy a home, according to authorities. All bells are off. Administrators at Seminole HS in Pinellas County, Fla., decided not to sound bells to signal the beginning and end of class. The school wants to make students responsible for their time without a reminder.

As Principal Tom Brittain put it: “How many colleges ring a bell?”

A children’s book is teaching the value of teamwork — and heavy lifting.

When Herman Ostrys’ farmhouse was threatened by rising waters back in 1988, he recruited 344 pals to lift the 16,000-pound structure and move it 100 feet up an incline in Bruno, Neb.

Years later, Jason Weber, who runs a nonprofit helping orphans, heard the story and thought it would make a great kids’ book: “Farmer Herman and the Flooding Barn.”