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Weird BUT true

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Tennessee cops busted two anglers for allegedly catching more than the legal amount of fish — and mooning a landowner.

The arrests came after a landowner reported two men trespassin­g by Yellow Creek, official said. When the owner confronted them, they “mooned” him and tipped over a nearby portable toilet, authoritie­s said.

Mark Steven Jones, 35, and Robert Earl Wilridge, 28, were caught with 35 smallmouth bass, 30 more bass than allowed, officials said.

Who better to teach kids how to game the system?

A high school guidance counselor has kept his job, despite multiple busts for selling stock without a trader’s license, the Seattle Times reported.

Violating state finance laws does not necessaril­y bar Garfield HS counselor Raymond Willis from holding on to his job, a district spokesman said.

A North Carolina restaurant was almost a washout from the start.

Owners of Tulip’s Indian Cuisine couldn’t understand why they got a water bill for $313,000, when they hadn’t even opened for business yet.

The city of Charlotte even turned off the restaurant’s water three times, before finally apologizin­g for someone misreading a meter.

Eureka Springs isn’t in high spirits over this proposal.

Medicinal marijuana was recently legalized in Arkansas and pot sellers want to open shop in the bohemian tourist town known for its springs and spas.

But local bank chairman John Cross doesn’t like the idea: “There’s a lot of difference between spring water and marijuana!” he said.

This fishing trip really jumped the shark.

A 9-foot great white shark jumped into the 15-foot power boat of Australian fisherman Terry Selwood, 73, over the weekend off Evans Head, 450 miles north of Sydney, officials said.

Selwood was left badly bruised by the 440-pound predator.

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