Weird BUT true

So he couldn’t just go to Victoria’s Secret — or Walmart — to buy them?

A Missouri man with an admitted fetish stole undies in a home break-in.

Cody Hassler, 34, of Washington, Mo., copped to creeping into the home while a mother and her teenage daughter were asleep to snag underwear from the laundry room.

He fled when the teen awoke, but was soon busted.

If anything proves that cocaine make users stupid, this tale does.

A Connecticut woman was busted on Christmas after she allegedly took out a packet of coke in plain view and prepared do a little snorting while waiting to be booked on unrelated charges.

Nicole Hunter was charged with possession, interfering with an officer and disorderly conduct in the Ledyard police station.

A Florida park that calls itself “The Only City of Live Mermaids” is looking to hire — you guessed it — mermaids.

Auditions will be held on Jan. 13 for people with the will, desire and lungs to work as “professional mermaids.”

Park spokesman John Athanason expects at least 50 women to show up but many will wash out quickly.

“It’s not easy what they do, and a lot of girls find that out.” Free Bird! A snowy owl had to be rescued after getting stuck in a barbed-wire fence at a Pennsylvania prison on Christmas Day.

A Wildlife Conservation officer was summoned to the Smithfield State Correctional Institute where he freed the carnivorous bird.

Happy New (and safe) Year!

Organizers of Berlin’s New Year’s Eve celebration’s are sectioning off a “safe zone” for women amid a growing number of sexual assaults at year-end bashes, officials said.