Weird BUT true

Call it a case of gran theft. Alabaman Preston Kelly, 23, texted his grandmother saying he’d been kidnapped.

His captors needed $1,000 or they’d kill him, Kelly told her, including photos of himself purportedly bound and beaten in a wooded area in Tennessee.

When Kelly’s grandmother called the cops, they made an arrest — of Kelly, for allegedly faking the kidnapping and extortion.

Maybe this burglary suspect should find another line of work.

Matthew Mobley, 41, was caught breaking into a Alexandria, La., home — after he got trapped inside the chimney, authorities said.

His arrest marked the 77th time Mobley was booked into the Rapides Parish Detention Center, cops said.

A Manchester, Pa., grocery turned into a zoo when a deer crashed through a glass door and ran amok through the aisles.

Shopper Robert Beck III cornered the dazed animal in the store’s baked-goods section. Saying it was “game on,” Beck grabbed the deer by the neck and led him outside — where it kicked him in the ribs and ran off into nearby woods.

These Border Patrol agents kept their cool and didn’t wig out.

The Pittsburgh International Airport agents flagged a shipment of wigs and hair extensions from Kenya. Inside, they found 110 pounds of khat, a plant that contains an amphetamine-like stimulant that’s illegal in the United States, officials said.

America’s answer to Stonehenge — or more apt, central Florida’s version of Texas’ Cadillac Ranch — came down Thursday.

The “Airstream Ranch,” a roadside attraction of eight chrome Airstream trailers jutting vertically from the earth, along Interstate 4 between Tampa and Orlando, was removed to make way for a new Airstream museum and dealership.