Weird BUT true
All she wants for Christmas is this freakin’ pothole fixed.
A Pennsylvania woman couldn’t get officials to fill a crater-like sinkhole on her street, so she stuffed it with holiday decorations — and now they’re paying attention.
Marietta Spak and other residents of Wilkes-Barre filled the eyesore in the middle of the road with a Christmas tree and a plastic Santa statue.
After weeks of ignored complaints, the city now says it plans to fix the hole as soon as this week.
A food-delivery man in India was canned when he was caught on camera chowing down on a customer’s grub.
The hungry worker in Zomato was busted gobbling the to-go food, then resealing it in a delivery bag while lounging on a parked motor scooter.
It was a large-“scale” rescue.
Firefighters saved more than 100 pet snakes — including pythons and boa constrictors — from a burning home in Texas.
They discovered a second-floor bedroom packed with reptiles slithering in glass tanks at the house in Conroe.
That’s one way to spice up retirement.
A senior-citizen couple was busted trafficking a “large amount of cocaine” on a cruise ship bound for England, authorities said.
The unnamed pair, ages 70 and 72, had just come from the West Indies when officials found 22 pounds of the drug inside suitcases in their cabin.
The septuagenarians were yanked off the ship and detained in Lisbon, Portugal.
Dead sexy. A funeral home in Wgrowiec, Poland, handed out a promotional calendar featuring nude women posing on caskets — and religious folks are hot and bothered.
It’s the 10th edition of the calendar, which has drawn the ire of the Catholic Church.