New York Post

Weird BUT true

- David K. Li, Wires

Maybe he thought it was the NBC Nightly Nudes.

A naked intruder dashed into NBC’s Washington bureau Saturday night, authoritie­s said.

After allegedly hitting a security guard and biting a staffer, Mark William Baker, 20, was subdued and held.

He was charged with assault and unlawful entry, and cops said he appeared to be “under the influence of a controlled substance.”

A California couple’s dream Italy-vacation plans were nearly killed by kindness.

For years, Bob Hoffman, 65, of Placentia, had been secretly saving for the trip, hiding his $8,000 stash in an old shirt — that wife Linda Hoffman, 68, unwittingl­y donated to Goodwill.

When the couple realized what had transpired, a frantic search of the donation center, in its second day, turned up the shirt and money.

“I describe it as a miracle,” said Linda.

Her caffeine fix fixed the situation.

A woman in Palo Alto, Calif., fended off two would-be purse snatchers by throwing her coffee in the face of one — who fled with his partner but without her property.

Wary of showing up with a pile of cash to meet a total stranger for a Craigslist transactio­n?

You don’t have to be in Sacramento, Calif., where cops have created an “online-exchange zone” in their parking lot for high-risk meetings — such as deals conducted online with other individual­s.

You can’t evade the long arm — or selfie — of the law.

A woman who left her purse in a Seattle Uber asked the driver to return it, saying she’d pay the cost of the extra trip.

The driver refused, so the woman called 911. Officer Eric Michl got no response to a voicemail and text seeking the bag, so he sent the driver a photo of himself in uniform . . . then the purse was returned.

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