Weird BUT true

It’s high-steaks politics. A Polish politician is on a mission to protect a cow that escaped from a slaughterhouse and swam to safety on a tiny remote island.

The brave bovine smashed through a fence and swam across Lake Nyskie in the southern city of Nysa three weeks ago, but firefighters have repeatedly failed to wrangle her.

Pawel Kukiz, a local politician, now wants to pay for the “hero cow” to live in peace on the island.

We’ll drink to this. People who consume two beers a day are more likely to live longer, according to a new study.

The habit cuts the risk of dying young by a fifth, according to University of California researchers who think the health benefits may be linked to slightly higher levels of body fat, which are good for elderly people.

An Indian farmer set up a poster of a porn star as a makeshift scarecrow to “guard” his crops — and it’s yielding hot results.

Chenchu Reddy, 45, of Andhra Pradesh, says an image of the adult-film actress Sunny Leone protects his cauliflower and cabbage from the “evil eye” of passers-by.

He claims his veggies began to flourish when he erected the poster.

A Georgia man was busted for allegedly force-feeding a goat cocaine and whiskey.

Sergio Palomares-Guzman, a 28-year-old horse trainer, was caught on camera holding the little guy’s horns while a pal shoved drugs in its nostrils at a ranch in Gwinnett County, police say.

The animal was taken to a vet and later adopted.

Major cluck up. To celebrate the Year of the Dog, Malaysian government officials paid for a fullpage newspaper ad — featuring a barking rooster.

Officials may have been trying to avoid printing an image of a canine because dogs are seen as unclean in the Muslim country.

Officials apologized for the “technical error.”