Weird BUT true
Stay away from Mekoryuk, Alaska, Rudolph!
The impoverished village’s tribal officials are pushing reindeer meat as a means of creating jobs.
They plan to use a $1.8 million federal grant to build a new slaughterhouse and sell the slabs in Alaskan cities.
This Texas mom is a real pistol.
A hot-tempered woman pointed a gun at another mother over her bad driving skills outside their kids’ Houston-area school.
The argument broke out as the parents waited in a drop-off line at Deer Park Elementary School.
The children were still in the back seats when one mom pointed a firearm at the other.
No one was arrested.
A drunken Rhode Island man stole a forklift because he lost his car keys and needed something to drive — then crashed it, cops said.
The man was visiting the Florida Keys last week when he lost his car keys and spotted the forklift at a marina.
He swiped the vehicle and promptly crashed it into a gate.
A cryogenically frozen grandfather has his own festival to celebrate him in Colorado.
The bizarre bash in Nederland, called Frozen Dead Guy Days, honors the corpse of Bredo Morstoel, who died in 1989, and whose body has been preserved on ice by his family.
The annual gathering takes place this weekend and includes a coffin race, a costumed ball, bowling with frozen fowl and a polar plunge.
An Indian motorcyclist refused to take ‘‘tow’’ for an answer.
Kanpur traffic police chained Mohammad Nouman’s bike to a tow truck after he refused to pay a fee for parking in a restricted zone.
Undeterred, Nouman jumped back on the chopper and stayed atop as it was towed to the impound lot.