Weird BUT true

An Oregon vigilante who calls himself the “creep catcher” was involved in a recent arrest: of himself.

Cougar Martin Joanis, of Prineville, who has made it his mission to bust would-be pedophiles he meets while posing as a 13year-old online ended up behind bars.

Authorities said Joanis was carrying a knife when he got in a spat confronting a 48-year-old “offender” in person, but declined to offer more details.

Special delivery from the US Ghost Office.

A postcard showed up at an Illinois woman’s home exactly 26 years after it was postmarked.

Kim Draper, of Springfield, said the letter was sent from Hong Kong to previous homeowners and postmarked July 8, 1993.

The writer offers a few details about his trip to China and signs off, “Your Dad.”

Hands across the water. Florida beachgoers at Panama City Beach formed a 100-strong “human chain” to rescue several swimmers who got sucked out to sea — and save four members of the chain, too, officials said.

The hand-holding was triggered by Tropical Storm Barry, which caused a strong riptide.

His cold one was a bit fishy.

A Florida guy cut open a large fish and found a full can of unopened beer in its stomach.

A wild video shows the fisherman slicing the brewski out of the scaly sucker with a knife, cracking open the beer, taking a swig and passing the beer can to a friend.

It’s a real man-bites-snake story!

A venomous snake chomped down on an Indian man working in a field — so the man bit it back. Parvat Gala Baria, a 60year-old from the Mahisagar area, was rushed to a hospital. But neither man nor snake survived.