Weird BUT true

So why do you keep a gun in your shoe?

A Detroit man accidentally shot himself in the foot trying to kill a cockroach.

He told cops he was trying to stop the bug in its tracks by throwing his shoe at it . . . when the pistol in it discharged.

Police said they couldn’t confirm the sequence of events but said the man was in stable condition after hospital treatment.

And you thought they all were just “flying rats.”

While many New Yorkers have no love for pigeons, a Chinese man paid a recordsetting $1.4 million for one.

He spent a fortune on Armando, a Belgian-raised racing pigeon considered one of the best long-distance birds ever. The previous record for a pigeon purchase was $450,000 in 2017.

Hopefully they’ll see the light.

Cellphone-obsessed pedestrians who peer at their screens instead of looking both ways when crossing the street may live to text another day thanks to officials in various international locales.

Officials in Israel, Australia, Singapore and the Netherlands are trying out embedded LED lights in crosswalks to get text “zombies” to look up. It’s a salt and “batter”y. Dwayne Zimmerman, 45, was busted in Brooksville, Fla., for allegedly chucking a bowl of batter at a woman that missed but shattered, splattering goop on the woman’s hair and clothes.

Taco Bell hot sauce may have saved a life — again!

A diner at a Winter Haven, Fla., fast-food outlet narrowly escaped injury when he got up from his table to grab packets of sauce, seconds before an out-ofcontrol SUV slammed into the joint, shattering glass and sending furniture flying where he had been seated.

Earlier this month, an Oregon man survived being stranded five days in a blizzard with only the sauce to consume.