New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

Mum’s the word if you feel the need for speed.

The US Navy’s exclusive fighter-pilot training school, known as TOPGUN, has started issuing $5 fines to any trainee caught quoting the classic Tom Cruise movie.

Officials made the rule after constant references to the 1986 flick made light of the prestigiou­s program.

They’re heroes— no kidding!

Hundreds of goats were sent to an Oregon town to chomp away dry forest vegetation that has fueled the region’s raging wildfires.

Some 230 four-legged firefighte­rs were hired by the city of Forest Grove to nibble at-risk areas.

The firm Healing Hooves charges $800 a day for use of the furry weed-whackers.

What throws around, comes around. Litterbugs who toss trash on the ground at a pristine national park in Thailand will now get the garbage shipped back to them, authoritie­s said. Khao Yai National Park records all visitors’ home addresses. In the country, littering in a national park is also punishable by up to five years in prison.

Now they’re in hot water. Two Russian soldiers were arrested for washing their shoes in holy water inside a sacred chapel.

A video surfaced online of the two men laughing and cleaning their kicks at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in the country’s Kaliningra­d region.

Military investigat­ors opened a criminal case, resulting in charges for “insulting religious beliefs.”

This speed demon was asleep at the wheel.

A Tesla driver in Canada was busted speeding at 93 mph while taking a nap in the self-driving car.

The 20-year-old was hit with reckless driving charges after a witness near the town of Ponoka reported seeing nobody at the wheel of the 2019 Tesla Model S.

He was dead asleep when cops found him.

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