Weird BUT true

Slop right there! An adorable pet pig foiled an attempted burglary in Indiana by striking fear into the hearts of intruders, according to police.

The crooks had just smashed their way through the back door of a home when they were surprised by the guard hog, Dumplin.

The thieves “were probably like, ‘ We don’t want to deal with this,’ ” the homeowner said. They fled emptyhanded.

Swallow your pride next time!

A booze-guzzling Canadian drove from a bar to the local police station and requested a Breathalyzer test to prove to his buddies that he wasn’t drunk.

He was, though, and police hit him with an impaired-driving rap. Now he’s on the hook. A thief wearing a pirate mask was caught on camera robbing an Oregon bar.

The scalawag slipped through a back door at the Last Lap in Cornelius and snatched $4,000 from a safe, the bar owner said. Cops are using surveillance footage to track him down.

Two animals became birds of a feather when a raging wildfire forced them to snuggle up for safety.

A scalded pet cat and a chicken struck up an unlikely friendship — nestling together to shield each other from heat in the doorway of a house — as flames ripped through farmland near Redding, Calif.

The duo, both with burns, were rescued by firefighters who carried them away in the same crate.

The granddaughter of a biologist who found a message in a bottle in Juneau, Alaska, more than 50 years ago traveled to Ireland this week to track down the man who sent it.

“Finder please write John J. Fricker, 215 Sarsfield Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8,” proclaims the message, which was discovered by Michael Perensovich, now 92, in 1964. Perensovich wrote the stranger but never heard back.