Weird BUT true

A female peacock flew off the handle in a suburban Los Angeles liquor store — and ruined $500 worth of wine.

The peahen, spooked by an animal-control officer’s attempts to shoo her out the door, kept dive-bombing bottles at the Royal Oaks Liquor Store in Arcadia, where peacocks are common.

Store manager Rani Ghanem said the usual rule of “You break, you buy, dude,” didn’t apply because the bird “got away with it.”

You better watch your glass in red-hot Phoenix!

“You know Arizona is hot when your windshield literally explodes while you’re driving,” Jasmine Berthold tweeted Sunday with a picture of the shattered mess.

The mercury reached 106 in southern Arizona Wednesday — the 11th straight day of 99 degrees or higher.

It wasn’t supposed to be a “coke” machine. But the 25cent putty-ball toy a Bell Gardens, Calif., restaurant machine dispensed to a kid held a white powder that turned out to be cocaine.

Alerted, police seized 17 toys from the same machine at Taqueria Los Altos that, combined, held 136 grams of coke worth $10,000, cops said.

The kid did not ingest the drug and was fine.

Neighbors in the Willow Glen neighborhood of San Jose, Calif., are on edge because someone has been ripping off camellia bushes from front yards.

At least one neighbor has installed security cameras in reaction to the string of “pretty” thefts.

Here’s an old-time dogfight.

A 65-year-old resident of The Villages, a Florida retirement community, was arrested for allegedly beating up a dog walker who refused to pick up after a pooping pooch.

“I know I messed up,” said John William Marcus, who was charged with battery.

“He said what he said to me and I just snapped.”