Weird BUT true

Nonsmokers take fewer breaks — no butts about it.

A Japanese company is giving nonsmoking employees an extra six days of paid vacation because they end up working more.

The Tokyo-based marketing firm Piala began offering the perk after a nonsmoking employee complained that 15-minute smoke breaks add up.

The move is an incentive for staffers to give up cigarettes, the firm’s CEO said.

These airheads needed airbags.

Several tourists talking on cellphones were injured when they walked into street lamps in Austria — so authorities covered the poles with protective airbags.

Salzburg city officials installed dozens of the white inflatables on lampposts to keep “cellphone zombies” safe, they said.

A Tennessee candy store had to bear with an unwelcome customer.

A black bear bolted through the front door of Aunt Mahalia’s Candies in Gatlinburg while a worker was in the back tidying up.

The hungry critter paused next to jars of candy but failed to get its paws on any of the treats, the worker said. It then darted off into a nearby wooded area.

That’s a good way to end up back in court.

A Pennsylvania man swiped a wallet in a judge’s office to pay court fines from two previous assault charges, police said.

Steven Rago, 31, was caught on camera stuffing a wallet into a pocket of his sweatshirt near a payment window at Allegheny Township district court, according to cops.

He later admitted to stealing the wallet and returned it, police said. Power outages bite. A beaver chewed through a wooden electrical pole and knocked out the power to an entire Canadian city.

The varmint, helped by strong winds, left the 36,000strong city of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, in the dark for more than an hour on Sunday.