Weird BUT true

When it comes to drawing a crowd, he’s no dummy!

A restaurant owner in Virginia plans to fill his dining room with mannequins to give the illusion that the place is bustling amid the coronavirus crisis.

The state will allow the Inn at Little Washington to reopen and offer outside seating at 50 percent capacity starting Friday, but chef Patrick O’Connell doesn’t want indoor tables to sit depressingly vacant, so he’ll outfit them with the life-size figures dressed in vintage 1940s attire.

He’s a reel prodigy. A 9-year-old Tennessee boy caught an 80-pound sturgeon that outweighed him by nearly 30 pounds.

Coye Price was trying to catch catfish at Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville, when he snagged the much larger prize. It took him 15 minutes to get the sturgeon into the boat.

After weighing his prey, he set it free.

Mother Nature needs deodorant!

A mysterious stench that’s causing the air near LA to stink “like an armpit” is likely the fault of glowing sea algae, experts said Wednesday.

Terry Mann, of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, blamed the smell on a dying bioluminescent red tide along the city’s coastline.

She might be a great mom, but she’s no wife of the year.

A Florida woman pelted her husband with a bouquet of Mother’s Day flowers, according to cops.

Kay Webb, 32, of Tampa, got into a fight with her hubby over her kids’ gift and allegedly tossed flowers at him Sunday. She was charged with domestic battery.

About 200 goats went on the lam in California.

The herd broke through a fence on a farm Tuesday and took over the streets of a San Jose neighborhood, munching on potted plants.

The gutsy goats were rounded up quickly, leaving behind only some telltale droppings.