Weird BUT true

Police in England sent dozens of wanted criminals fake coupons for free baskets of luxury Christmas treats to nab them in an undercover sting.

Enticed by the goodies, nearly 70 suspects unwittingly contacted South Yorkshire Police to arrange a time to claim the gifts.

Instead, they were presented with a pair of handcuffs. Holy smokes. A California church passes out joints to worshippers who want to connect with God through the “spirit of cannabis.”

Pastor sat Coach ella Valley Church, a Christian-Rastafarian hybrid in San Jose, encourage parishioners to puff while they pray.

Church leaders say religious-freedom laws allow them to offer pot to visitors without a doctor’s recommendation.

A British booze thief put a new twist on functional swimwear when he stuffed six bottles of whiskey into the women’s one-piece bathing suit he was wearing.

Mihaita-Lilian Dinu, 21, of Great Yarmouth, was sporting the suit under his clothes when he allegedly slid six bottles of Jack Daniel’s into it, authorities said.

The crook planned to sell the liquor and then send the money back to his family in Romania, authorities said. It’s one shell of a bad deal. A Florida man got so crabby when he was served a skimpy portion of seafood that he called 911 to report the restaurant.

Nelson Agosto, 51, allegedly griped to a dispatcher that the clams at Crabby’s Seafood Shack in Stuart were “extremely” small.

A British man who worked for years as a parking-lot attendant got royally screwed by a dead king.

Mike Mistry, 61, lost his job after archaeologists unexpectedly found the longlost body of King Richard III under the municipal parking lot in Leicester.

After the body was found, officials closed down the lot.