Weird BUT true

Don’t hiss her off. An 89-year-old Tallahasse, Fla., grandmother whacked a 6-foot snake to death with a hammer.

Fed up that the reptile was eating her beloved backyard birds, Garlene Eiceman, who goes by “Grandma Bunny,” took matters into her own hands.

“I turned my hammer sideways, and I got him good,” she said. “I was so angry with that snake.”

This may give cat owners some “paws.”

A recent study from researchers in Japan found that cats can distinguish their own names from other random sounds — which means they may be choosing to ignore calls from owners to come hang out.

A traffic scofflaw attempted to trick the California DMV using a vanity license plate — only to end up with $12,000 worth of tickets.

The parking and traffic violator thought using the plate “NULL” would confuse the DMV’s ticketing system.

Instead, he started receiving all of the outstanding tickets in the department’s database that, due to incomplete data, had been assigned to the licence plate “Null.”

Online trolls who mocked a drug dealer’s mugshot for his receding hairline may be prosecuted for harassment, police warned.

Cops in Gwent, Wales, released the photo of accused cocaine-hawker Jermaine Taylor, 21, in an effort to find him — only to be flooded with 76,000 comments, most mocking the crook’s unusual hairdo.

“Please remember that harassing, threatening and abusing people on social media can be against the law,” cops scolded.

Authorities in Toronto were investigating an illegal gambling ring involving seniors at community centers — until the mayor blasted them as the “anti-fun police’’ and ordered them to stop.

Investigators had been looking into low-stakes euchre games when Mayor John Tory pulled the plug on the probe.