Weird BUT true

Here’s the No. 1 tip for would-be burglars: Don’t do a No. 2 at the crime scene.

Someone broke into a home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., “did his business [in the toilet] and didn’t flush it,” Ventura County sheriff ’s deputies said. The remaining DNA led detectives to Andrew David Jensen, 42, whose genetic profile was in a national database.

The doors of a coroner’s van suddenly flew open in Olympia, Wash., on Monday and two gurneys — one holding a body — fell out, officials said.

The corpse-carrying gurney was recovered at a nearby intersection and there was no damage to the body, according to Thurston County coroners.

A Michigan man’s frontyard real-estate sign that states he won’t sell his home to foreigners violates state anti-discrimination laws, official said.

The sign in front of James Prater’s house in Mason says, “Terms No foreigners Iraq vet” next to “For Sale by Owner.”

Prater insists he has done nothing wrong.

A Utah lawmaker says he’s planning a thorough check of all the weird, arcane laws on the state books.

Some of the outdated statutes make it a crime to hold a raccoon, fail to mow your lawn or make a wager on an election.

“Something like holding a raccoon, up to six months in jail,” state Sen. Daniel Thatcher said. “Don’t you think the punishment should be you’re holding a raccoon?”

Court bailiffs in Portland, Ore., couldn’t believe it when a spectator came into court and lit up a marijuana joint.

It’s legal in Oregon for people 21 and over to have a small amount of pot in their possession in public, but you still can’t blaze up in a public setting.

The man was genuinely shocked when he was told he couldn’t do his doobie in court, officials said.