Weird BUT true
A Nebraska woman is raising hell over some public art at a children’s zoo.
The 6-foot-tall red sculpture is “anti-Christian and demonic,” claimed the woman, who mistakenly thought the Lincoln Children’s Zoo installation depicted devil horns.
The mayor told her the statue depicts Spider-Man’s hands, not devil horns, and will be auctioned off soon by a Christian charity.
A Frenchman is fuming over a cigarette-pack health-warning image — of his own left leg after an amputation.
The man said he recognized his partial limb, accompanying the words “smoking clogs your arteries,” from distinctive scarring and burn marks. But he says no one asked his permission to use the photo of his injuries after a shooting incident in Albania in 1997.
A British farmer is trying to get drivers to slow down by dressing up a scarecrow like a traffic cop.
Edie Pope, 71, of Lydiate, Merseyside, England, outfitted the “scare-cop” with a uniform and an object resembling a radar speed gun.
No word on whether the scarecrow cop is working.
It wasn’t a nothing-burger. Five guys were arrested for fighting at a Five Guys restaurant in Stuart, Fla.
A witness said she saw one man “talking s--t” to another, a cup being thrown and a door getting slammed in someone’s face as the allout food fight erupted.
Three adults and two underage males were taken into custody.
A British cop admitted buying porn at the home of a deceased child while waiting for an undertaker.
Metropolitan cop Avi Maharaj, 44, spent $30 from the family’s Virgin TV account to buy four dirty flicks while the child’s corpse was still in the house.
Authorities apologized to the family for having to “deal with this while also coping with the tragic loss of their child.”