Weird BUT true

British tourists booked a pad in Amsterdam on Airbnb and were gobsmacked when they found it was actually a metal shipping container.

An ad on a Web site called the space a “clean home” with “a private bathroom” for $128 a night, according to customer Ben Speller.

Inside the windowless box was a mattress with sheets and a portable toilet.

A jailbird in Spain bellyached to officials that depriving him of wine with every meal goes against his “religious freedom.”

In a letter requesting the vino, the inmate of Zaballa prison declared himself a disciple of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine.

He said he needs it “to comply with the norms of my religion.”

Money can’t buy you brains.

A Florida woman who won a $1 million lottery last year was arrested in a heroin case last week.

Karlee Harbsthad, 27, of Port Orange, bought a Gold Rush Doubler scratch-off ticket and hit the jackpot in May 2018.

Despite her new fortune, she began working with a ring of opioid and cocaine dealers, officials said.

A California hillbilly was busted when he led cops on a “very low speed-chase” on his tractor.

When officers tried to pull over the man for driving erratically in Rancho Cordova, he hit the gas.

But during the 20-minute chase, the country bumpkin made it only a mile.

“Jurassic Park” sequel makers, take note.

Four college students stumbled onto a nest of 66million-year-old dinosaur eggs while out for a hike in China.

The guys spotted what looked like “strange stones” covered in reddish mud in Pingxiang City and reported their findings to the Chinese Academy of Science. The petrified eggs are now on display at a local museum.