New York Post

Weird true BUT

- David K. Li, Wires

Screw-up of the yearbook. Middle-school officials in California scrambled this week to collect 1,000 distribute­d yearbooks containing an overlooked racial slur.

The Black Mountain MS annual had an old map of north San Diego County emblazoned on the front. Students noticed the N-word included in tiny letters.

“This was a reference to an area . . . which was once known as the home of a freed slave, and referred to with a very derogatory label,” principal Charan Kirpalani wrote to parents.

No onions — or else. A man, upset because his food included the pungent veggie, was busted for threatenin­g to shoot a Pittsburgh restaurant owner and then exposing himself, police said.

Yuba Sharma, 43, ate at All Indiana restaurant Monday before coming back Tuesday to threaten violence and drop his pants, cops said.

Two burglars broke into a northern California high school and were about to steal TVs and computers — but fell asleep, cops said.

The suspects got cozy inside Chana HS, heating up a frozen pizza in a classroom before dozing off. A school worker found them the next morning and called police.

The lab work was cracked. Red-faced cops in Bell Gardens, Calif., admitted they made a mistake when it came to white stuff found on a toy.

The Taqueria Los Altos restaurant drew national headlines this week when a parent found a mysterious white substance on a 25cent toy purchased from a vending machine there.

Cops at first said it was blow, but on Wednesday night said their lab had a “false positive” for the “cocaine” — which was probably baking soda or flour.

A book was returned to a library in West Hartford, Conn., a mere 52 years late.

W.O. Mitchell’s “Who Has Seen The Wind” was due back on Sept. 29, 1965. It was returned this week with a note saying, “Sorry it has taken so long,” the library said.

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