Weird BUT true

Yule never guess who these Houston kids attacked — an elderly, whitebearded Santa.

The boys, one 11-year-old, a 12-year-old and two 14year-olds, were charged with robbing, pistol-whipping and beating with his own walking stick Ray Johnson, 76, who looks like St. Nick even when he’s not dressed like him for the holiday season.

The kiddie crew may be behind other similar attacks for “kicks,” cops said.

South Florida residents complaining about a neighbor doing outdoor chores in the nude were told, in effect: buff luck.

Residents in Stuart griped about their neighbor gardening, putting out the trash and working on his car in the altogether.

The Martin County Sheriff ’s Department told them they can’t do anything about the display of privates on private property.

A region in western Ukraine has moved to ban all public displays of the Russian language.

The legislature in the Lviv region voted to “impose a moratorium on the public broadcast and use of Russian-language content” until Russia withdraws all of its troops from Ukraine.

That means all books, films, and songs in Russian are a no-go for the area. The official language is Ukrainian.

An alligator is on the loose in . . . no, not Florida. New Jersey!

The 3- to 4-foot gator was spotted in the Devonshire section of Mullica Township Tuesday afternoon.

It was unclear where it came from. It’s a boatercycle. Video captured stunned motorists watching a helmet-wearing man cruising down a Jacksonville, Fla., road on an odd hybrid vehicle.

“It’s a jet-ski driving down the road,” an audibly amused man can be heard saying in the background of the now-viral video.