New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

A massive flock of loud and aggressive peacocks is wreaking havoc on a Florida town — and ruffling neighbors’ feathers.

At least 50 of the pesky birdbrains have overrun Hillside Terrace in the city of Brandon, strutting inside homes, perching on roofs and unleashing messy droppings.

Some residents want wildlife officials to remove the critters, while others say they deserve to run free during mating season.

Sir-render!

A man dressed in a realistic-looking medieval knight costume — complete with a 3-foot sword — was grabbed by cops in Wales who thought he posed a threat.

Lennon Thomas, a 20year-old Dungeons and Dragons role player, said he was “exercising “when police demanded that he put down the blade.

He said he didn’t realize he’d be considered dangerous, and apologized for his “lapse in judgment.”

Two pandemics down . . . A spunky 108-year-old New Jersey woman who lived through the global Spanish flu crisis has also survived the coronaviru­s.

Sylvia Goldsholl beat the deadly bug at a nursing home in Allendale, and is believed to be one of the world’s oldest survivors of the illness.

Born in 1911, she was 6 years old when the Spanish Flu tore through the US.

A Florida landlord allegedly set fire to her tenant’s home — over a missing towel, according to cops.

Robin Hamilton, 57, of Hawthorne allegedly told the renter that the rag had “sentimenta­l value” and threatened to “burn her out.”

A tiger escaped an enclosure and was lassoed by a man wearing a cowboy hat in Mexico, according to wild video footage.

The ferocious feline is shown meandering along a sidewalk in Guadalajar­a while three men chase after it — before eventually wrangling the animal. The tiger had escaped a private residence.

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