Weird BUT true

With a dad like this, who needs enemies?

A Maine man was busted for shooting his 9- and 11year-old sons with a BB gun. The New England pop claimed getting shot by a BB gun is a childhood rite of passage.

A life-size Ronald McDonald statue stolen from a McDonald’s in Clifton, NJ, last month has been found.

But authorities are keeping mum about where it was found, and any leads they may have on the Hamburglar’s identity.

Hunterdon County prosecutors say the 250-pound fiberglass statue of the clown character sitting on a bench was taken from the McDonald’s in Clinton. They announced Friday that it had been found but declined further comment.

He can’t bear the criticism!

A Nevada biologist is suing bear-protection advocates at Lake Tahoe he accuses of harassing and threatening him through a “vicious and calculated” social-media campaign that paints him as a corrupt bear murderer who should be imprisoned — or worse.

This was the mother of all graduations.

Mitchell Piantanida, 21, received a bachelor’s degree from Concordia University in Irvine, Calif., on Saturday while his 52-yearold mother, Danette Bonfield Bonillo, received her doctorate at the same university later in the day.

An elected official in a small Michigan town is serving a 90-day jail sentence after he was accused of forging documents to impress an overseas mistress.

Charles Rogers is a member of the village council in Northport, north of Traverse City. Authorities say he created divorce documents with forged signatures of court officials and sent them to a woman in London. The woman contacted Rogers’ wife, who reached out to police. Rogers pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.