New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Chris Perez, Wires

The man should have ordered a scrappy meal.

Instead, Anthony Frazier, 25, caused a ruckus at a Santa Fe, NM, hamburger joint, slapping a customer and darting off with the customer’s green-chile cheeseburg­er, cops said.

Cops, who chased down Frazier, charged him with shopliftin­g. Polly wants to order. A British family’s African grey parrot managed to buy $13 worth of gift boxes from Amazon by tricking the company’s voice-activated assistant, Alexa, into thinking the bird was his owner.

Corienne Pretorius, of southeast London, said her parrot mimicked her voice to place the order Sunday.

Do you know what the French call a grilled cheese in Quebec? “Grilled Cheese.” But it hasn’t always been the case.

A new policy implemente­d this week in the Canadian province now makes “grilled cheese” and several other banished English terms acceptable to use in public and elsewhere.

For decades, residents had to say “sandwich au fromage fondant.” Meanwhile, in Ottawa . . . A man was sentenced this week to two years behind bars for breaking into a jail with a buttload of drugs.

Damian O’Reilly, 20, was caught smuggling marijuana, tobacco, matches and rolling papers into the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Center last year.

He tried hiding the goods inside eight Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs, stuffed in his rectum.

A wild bison was spotted in Germany for the first time in over 250 years last week — and then shot dead by two local hunters.

The rare beast was spotted Sept. 13 in the town of Lebus and reported to the public order office in Brandenbur­g.

The head official there handed down orders for it to be killed, and it was the very next day.

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