New York Post

Weird BUT true

- David K. Li, with Wires

They’re going to need a smaller boat — price.

The state of Alaska is trying to get rid of a ferry, Motor Vessel Taku, which was retired in 2015.

The state first asked for $1.5 million, but there were no takers. It then asked for $700,000 but no one was biting. Now Department of Transporta­tion officials are formulatin­g a third, even lower price for the 370-passenger craft.

This uniform is good enough for America, but not for Liberty Union HS in Brentwood, Calif.

Graduating senior Harland Fletcher, who enlisted in the US Army Reserves at age 17, said he was barred from commenceme­nt because he wanted to get his diploma in uniform. He was told he had to wear graduation robes.

The school rep has since apologized: “No slight was meant to Harland nor to the US Army.”

Feds who operate a women’s jail in Chicago say they can’t stop impromptu strip shows for inmates.

For years, people have been going to the top of a parking garage and putting on shows for residents of the Metropolit­an Correction Center — who flick the lights to show their appreciati­on.

A rep for the Bureau of Prisons said, “Because it is private property, the Bureau of Prisons has no authority to remove people.”

An executive for the company that runs the garage says he doesn’t know anything about the free shows. Not all is well in paradise. Some people are upset over stone altars with upside-down Hawaiian flags at the University of Hawaii at Hilo and at Hawaii Community College.

The structures, built after student arrests two years ago, are meant to protest US crimes against the island.

Someone failed potty training.

Firefighte­rs in Guangzhou, China, had to work for six hours to rescue a woman whose foot got stuck in a toilet. She wasn’t injured.

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