Weird true

What a fowl-up! A stretch of the A1 highway in County Durham in northeast England was closed, off and on, for two days because of an emu on the loose.

Eventually, the flightless bird was corralled and returned to its owner. But “drivers might not be emused,” joked Britain’s highway agency.

A North Carolina laundromat owner and suspected drug dealer was hung out to dry this week.

Cops grew suspicious of Ronald Middleton’s Transform ’ N’ Go business in Raleigh because of its low water bills and customers entering without wash to do, police said.

A police raid on the laundromat turned up 12 pounds of marijuana, 184 hydrocodone pills, scales, packaging material and $60,663 in cash, leading to Middleton’s arrest, cops said.

Birds want to be free, but this savior paid a price.

A motorist was caught on traffic cameras releasing some 60 pigeons on a highway in Jilin province, China.

He told police he wanted the birds to experience freedom — but he was fined $29 for a traffic violation.

To solve this Rubik’s Cube, you need your wits — and also maybe a ladder.

The Telus Spark museum in Calgary, Canada, has unveiled what is believed to be the world’s largest working Rubik’s Cube — a 66inch-tall plywood cube four inches taller than one that now holds the Guinness World Record.

A crook has been stealing massive bells from buoys off the coast of Maine.

Now the Coast Guard is offering a cash reward for information surrounding the thefts.

Officials say that over the last nine months, bells were stolen from nine buoys in Penobscot Bay.

Tampering with the buoys is a federal crime and can lead to fines of up to $25,000 per day and up to a year in the slammer.