New York Post

Weird BUT true

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Guests at these hotels will be living high on the hog.

An agricultur­al company has opened two seven-story “hog hotels” to get around a dire shortage of farmland on southern China’s Yaji Mountain.

Each floor of the porcine palaces run by Guangxi Yangxiang Co. can hold up to 1,000 sows. Now that’s a bad call. A fugitive hiding out in western New York is back behind bars after accidental­ly dialing 911 and leading cops right to him.

Jesse Graham, 53, inadverten­tly dialed the number Friday night while lying low in Lyons.

Cops checking out the call learned Graham was wanted in North Carolina. It wasn’t immediatel­y clear why. He was charged with being a fugitive from justice, as well as pot possession.

Good luck sending your RSVP.

Relatives of theoretica­l physicist Stephen Hawking, who died in March at 76, have invited time travelers to attend his Westminste­r Abbey memorial next month.

Those wishing to get on the guest list have to fill out an applicatio­n with their date of birth — which can be any day up to the year 2038.

Cops tracked down three suspects in the theft of a statue from a Wisconsin church with an unusual clue: half-eaten corn dogs.

Remnants of the food were found near St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Wausau, where a statue of the Virgin Mary was swiped May 7.

Police deduced the snacks were bought at a convenienc­e store across the street and found the trio using surveillan­ce footage.

A Texas couple’s konjac plant, a species known to smell like a rotting corpse, has attracted a confused visitor to their garden: a hungry vulture.

The carrion feeder began roosting on the fence of Don and Marilyn MacGregor’s Fort Worth home shortly after they planted the pungent plant.

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