Weird BUT true

They’re just nuts for the big city.

Urban chipmunks are happier and better fed than their country cousins, a British study reports.

The striped rodents tend to be healthier in cities because there’s plenty of food waste for them to nibble on, according to research from Oxford University’s Behavioural Ecology department.

“We expected chipmunks that lived in the city would be more stressed out, probably thinner,” said lead researcher Albrecht SchulteHostedde. “[But] they’re fat.”

The suspect was clueless, and the cops got just the clue they needed.

A ditzy Connecticut bank robber penned a demand note on the back of his girlfriend’s pay stub, police say.

Steven Gomez-Maya, 20, allegedly handed a teller the note at the TD Bank in Seymour and escaped with a few hundred bucks.

Police flipped the note over and quickly found him at his gal pal’s home. Let purple reign! Some Minnesota residents are demanding the state remove a Christopher Columbus statue from the state capitol in St. Paul and replace it with one of late pop legend Prince.

Nearly 3,000 people have signed a petition claiming the singer, who hailed from Minnesota, is more deserving of a monument than the Italian explorer.

Two roommates found a python curled up under a washing machine in the laundry room of their condo building in Alberta, Canada.

But instead of freaking out, they decided to keep the 2-foot-long reptile as a pet.

“We realized how sweet she is,” said Peter QuebecStacey, who named the snake T. Swift, after pop star Taylor Swift.

A popular bicycling magazine apologized for a photo-caption flub that labeled a female rider “token attractive woman.”

Cycling Weekly issued a statement admitting that the caption was “idiotic.”