New York Post

Weird BUT true

- David K. Li, Wires

Hey, I’m great, but I’m not

that great. Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz has ordered that a too-flattering columnist be suspended for equating His Majesty with God.

Attributin­g divine qualities or giving individual­s any of the 99 names of God is taboo in the kingdom.

The newspaper published an apology.

Exsqueeze me? About 1,000 people in Aurora, Ill., banged their heads to Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” — honoring the 25th anniversar­y of locally set “Wayne’s World” — on Tuesday night, in hopes of setting a Guinness World Record. The previous record was for a mere 320 head-bangers in Australia, in 2014.

You know a motorcycle is going fast when cops have to bring in air support to catch up.

Nebraska State Patrol troopers in Omaha, after clocking a 28-year-old motorcycli­st going 146 mph, radioed a nearby State Patrol airplane, whose pilot helped cops on the ground nab the daredevil, officials said.

Two Arlington, Texas, cops went “stray” beyond the call of duty Tuesday to rescue a kitten.

Officers Austin Kidd and Rob Phillips first used a jack and lug wrench to remove a car’s rear wheel to free the trapped cat, authoritie­s said. When the animal darted off, they stopped traffic until they corralled it to turn over to Animal Control.

A Seattle man beat a $234 speeding ticket after a judge agreed that speed-limit signs were very confusing.

Jason Canfield was nailed for going 28 mph in a 20mph school zone.

But a judge, siding with Canfield, said it was hard to understand the 20-mph sign — which had another sign beneath it reading, “WHEN CHILDREN ARE PRESENT,” and beneath that, “OR WHEN FLASHING,” and, exhausting­ly, another beneath that one, reading, “PHOTO ENFORCED.”

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