Weird but true

Marines in Southern California rounded up and relocated 929 tortoises from the Mojave Desert before the leathernecks could stage large-scale training exercises.

Commanders at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms said it took about two weeks for soldiers and wildlife experts to collect the endangered desert critters.

Hello police, can you find my smack?

A man called cops in Akron, Ohio, saying he needed a police dog’s help finding heroin stolen from him, officials said.

The 911 call in January was “one of the most bizarre that I’ve heard,” said Akron police chief Mike McNeely who said it led to the caller’s arrest this week for drug possession.

She was naked and unafraid!

An Alaska State Trooper, responding to a report of an unwelcome house guest in Anchor Point, found Mary Kate Field, 30, banging on a back porch door, police said.

Field was asked to leave. Instead, “she stripped naked and challenged the trooper to a fight,” cops said.

The Coca-Cola Co. thinks it smells a rat — in a South Dakota man’s claim that he found a dead mouse in his Coke can.

Duane Putzier is suing Coke, saying he was so grossed out, he missed 60 hours of work and spent $1,000 on medical bills after finding the rodent.

Coke says the mouse would have been more decomposed if it actually got into the can during bottling.

A trap-shooting team in Minnesota has been told it can’t appear in its highschool yearbook holding rifles, because of a school policy against firearms in pictures.

The Big Lake HS shooters and their parents believe their firearms should be treated like any other sports equipment. “Political correctness has gone way overboard,” said parent Rick Anderson.