New York Post

Weird BUT true

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Oh, grow up! Several Virginia towns have outlawed trick-ortreating for anyone over the age of 12.

Teens who go door-to-door asking for candy in Chesapeake, for instance, could face fines up to $100 or even up to six months in jail.

A Kentucky man kvetched online about being harassed by state police — so a cop showed up at his house the next day and harassed him, he claims in a lawsuit.

Driver David Gabbard was pulled over on Sept. 16, then posted on Facebook that he had been harassed. The next day, the cop who stopped him came knocking.

Officer Scott Townsley engaged in an argument with the civilian and threats of violence ensued, WDRB-TV reported.

Greece is trying to lighten the load of its donkeys.

Officials have banned fat tourists from riding the beasts of burden who are being “‘crippled by obese riders,” according to UK’s Mirror newspaper.

The country’s Ministry of Rural Developmen­t and Food has decreed that no one over 220 pounds can ride a tourist donkey.

A gecko that climbed on a phone at an Hawaiian animal hospital managed to “butt-dial” people “a bazillion” times, officials said.

Hospital director Claire Simeone got nine calls from the critter in one day, according to a Twitter post where she blamed “HIS TINY GECKO FEET” for triggering the touch-screen phone he was climbing on.

The Florida city of Port St. Lucie is saying “entschul

digung” (excuse us) after an Oktoberfes­t performer it hired inadverten­tly played the Nazi-era German national anthem. Only a man originally from Frankfurt noticed the error.

“I was looking at my wife and said, ‘Hold on, there’s something wrong,’ ” Andre Leitzbach told WPTV.

The city said the performer downloaded the wrong sheet music.

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