Weird BUT true

Calling all do-nothing employees!

A university in Germany is offering “idleness grants” to workers willing to do absolutely nada for research.

The University of Fine Arts in Hamburg said it will pay three lucky slackers $1,900 to join a study of the relationship between “sustainability” and “material success.”

Candidates must pitch their specific form of “inactivity,” which could include sleeping or sitting still.

If anyone should have been ready for a stealthy attack . . .

A ninja museum in Japan was targeted by a bandit who made off with $9,400 in a sneaky, late-night heist, according to a report.

The covert crook swooped in to steal a heavy locked safe from an office at the Iga-ryu Ninja Museum in Mie Prefecture on Monday.

The thief forced open the office entrance with a crowbar and set off the building’s alarm — but slipped away before cops arrived five minutes later.

This flight delay was too much to “bear.”

An airplane trying to land at an airport in Russia was held up when a bruin ambled onto the runway.

The S7 Airlines flight from Novosibirsk to Magadan was delayed for 20 minutes after members of the flight crew spotted the bear from about 500 feet above.

Eventually, the animal left.

Dough! A brainless driver and his pal were busted doing doughnuts on a busy Florida highway during a contest, police said.

Alef Almeida, 26, and his passenger, Leonardo Lopes de Almeida, 32, were allegedly competing with other motorists who had blocked traffic for the contest.

Painting eyes on a cow’s rear end can keep it safe — no butts about it!

Cattle in Botswana, where the bovines are eaten by lions, were attacked less often when farmers painted the peepers on their rumps, a study published in the journal Communications Biology found. Natalie O’Neill, Wires