New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

Greens are the new black for a trendy New York fashion firm that’s hawking salad-inspired jewelry for hundreds of bucks.

Joan Hornig Jewelry’s “Lettuce Give Back” line features an 18-karat gold kale bracelet for $1,400.

Veggie nuts can also buy silver romaine-lettuce and cauliflowe­r cuffs.

A Scottish beer firm will soon give workers with new puppies and rescue dogs paid “paw-ternity” leave for the first time ever in the US, according to a report.

BrewDog, which is set to open in Columbus, Ohio, this spring, already offers the deal to 1,000 employees across the world.

The company also offers paternity and maternity leave packages for employees with (human) babies.

Brazilian jailbirds took prison smuggling to new heights when they used a carrier pigeon to slip a cellphone past guards.

Prisoners told pals on the outside to strap the phone to a vest-like garment on the bird, which soared over a fence at Nilton Silva prison in Franco da Rocha.

But guards spotted inmates trying to catch the bird and knew the prisoners had run afowl of the rules.

Parents were wondering what a Canadian teacher was smoking after the educator passed out a homework assignment with instructio­ns on how to make and use crystal meth.

The eighth-grade drama teacher at Erin Mills MS in Mississaug­a sent home a script for a skit about cooking up speed and told kids to “act happy” when injecting the drug.

The unidentifi­ed educator was suspended with pay.

These bandits made off with a butt-load of loot.

Thieves swiped hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of colonoscop­y equipment from a hospital in Canada, cops said.

Three crooks broke into Toronto Western Hospital and swiped $1.2 million in medical equipment.

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