Weird BUT true

Low self-esteem is for the birds.

Peacocks are attacking cars in Canada because they hate their own reflections. For months, the feral bird brains have been scratching up dark-colored car panels in Sullivan Heights, British Columbia.

The squawkers often mistake reflected images of themselves for rivals during mating season.

The state of Texas flubbed the definition of a “pickle”— and it’s a really big dill, farmers say.

Veggie growers Anita and James McHaney, of Hearne, are suing the state’s Health Department, claiming the definition should include all preserved vegetables.

Current state law allows people to easily sell pickled cucumbers at farmers’ markets, but puts stricter regulations on other pickled snacks, such as beets.

A British World War I hero’s 103-year-old Cadbury chocolate bars have been found — and they’re in good shape.

Cpl. Richard Bullimore, of the Leicestershire Regiment, had been given 10 chocolate bars and tobacco in a tin as a Christmas gift.

Bullimore, who died in 1967, ate one bar. The leftovers were recently discovered and are up for auction.

Residents of a Russian village are baffled as to why a popular swimming hole has suddenly turned blood-red.

The small lake, in the southwestern town of Gribanovsky, looks plucked from a “horror movie,” according to online posts.

Locals blamed a nearby sugar factory for dumping waste that may have contaminated the water.

A Florida couple whose patio furniture was rearranged in the middle of the night checked security cameras — and found a design-savvy alligator was the culprit.

The gator pushed several chairs with its head toward a front door of the home in Bradenton, much to the surprise of Mary Charbonneau and her husband, Mike.