Weird BUT true

Politics is a game of chance in Illinois.

The next Colp village president will be have to be picked by a coin flip, after Tammy O’Daniell-Howell and Bryan Riekena each garnered 11 votes in last week’s election.

Only 29 of the village’s 250 voters bothered to cast ballots.

The owner of an arcade in Orange Park, Fla., claims he has the right to be tacky.

Scott Fisher, owner of Gone Broke Gaming, is suing the city because it’s barring him from displaying his 10-foot-tall inflatable Super Mario. He said the city’s anti-inflatable code is a violation of his First Amendment rights.

The video-game balloon is also good for business, Fisher said, explaining, “We put thehe Mario up and it was literallyly in no time that the foot traf-ffic tripled.”

Firefighters in San Clem-mente, Calif., saved a restau-urant — and a little bit ofof their own history.

They put out a rooftopp blaze at Firehouse Ribs & More Restaurant, located in a building that once wasas headquarters for San Clem-mente’s volunteer firefighters.s.

Forcing women to wearar high heels? Take a hike.

Lawmakers in British Co-lumbia, Canada, are movingg toward passing legislationn that would bar employerss from making high-heeledd shoes part of a woman’s re-equired workplace attire.

“Forcing female employ-y ees to wear high-heeled shoes, especially when theirir male colleagues are wearingng flat shoes, is archaic andnd this change is clearly over-rdue,” said Andrew Weaver,r, a Green Party leader andd proponent of the legislation.

Better “call” in the experts — if you can.

Someone stole a 68-foottall cellphone tower near Winnipeg, Canada.

“The tower was disassembled and loaded onto a trailer, behind a red Dodge dually truck,” according to a statement by police in the town of Egg Lake.