Weird BUT true

Now that’s an activist judge.

A Chehalis, Wash., jurist ripped off his robes and chased down a pair of handcuffed inmates who bolted from his courtroom.

Judge R.W. Buzzard flew after Tanner Jacobson, 22, and Kodey Howard, 28, when they ran out of court and down a stairwell.

Buzzard nabbed Howard and cops snagged Jacobson a few blocks away.

Maybe call an exterminator next time.

A man house-sitting for his parents in North Fresno, Calif., set the home ablaze when he used a blowtorch to kill black widow spiders, officials said.

The man escaped the fire without injury, authorities said, but the house suffered extensive damage to its attic and second floor.

A New Jersey Transit conductor was this dog’s best friend.

Howard Kempton saw Shelby lost on the tracks near South Orange. So he stopped train traffic, jumped out and used his tie as a makeshift leash to rescue the pooch.

A passenger who called the phone number on Shelby’s collar arranged for the dog’s owner to meet the train in Summit. Shelby’s leash had broken during an earlier walk, the owner said. The cat was the hero here. A New Zealand man was sound asleep when fire broke out on his Whangara farm — until the kitty jumped on him and woke him up.

“He got up to find smoke in the dining and kitchen area and got out of the building through a bedroom window,” authorities said.

Someone swiped a rare bonsai tree from a Hawaii homeowner who has spent nearly six decades caring for the plant.

The bonsai was snatched in September from David Fukumoto’s nursery in the Big Island community of Mountain View, he said.

The man planted the tree in 1962.