Weird BUT true

Premature illumination! Dim bulbs in Bridgewater, England, became the butt of countless barbs following the town’s socially distanced Christmas-lights “switch-on.”

Video shared on Twitter by BBC Radio Somerset showed the lights brighten before local dignitaries had finished pushing the huge, prop-like plunger that was supposed to turn them on.

This was one cool promotion.

The Canadian Army celebrated the fifth birthday of a beloved polar bear at the Toronto Zoo by giving the animal a bump from private to honorary master corporal.

Juno was born on Remembrance Day, the Canadian holiday for honoring armed-forces members who died in the line of duty. He was named in honor of the Canadian landings on Juno Beach in World War II.

Now that’s water fowl! A Clearwater, Fla., family has been thawing out their Thanksgiving turkey the same way for 18 years: They fling the frozen bird into their backyard swimming pool for a day.

The clan closely examines the turkey’s packaging for leaks before the toss to insure chlorinated water doesn’t seep into the meat.

You’ve got to be kitten! Amazon customers who pre-ordered the new PlayStation 5 were stunned when they instead received deliveries of cat food, grills and foot massagers.

Red-faced Amazon reps hoped diehards would understand nobody’s purr-fect and said they were “really sorry” for the mistake.

This police officer’s story has a hole in it.

An English constable was sacked after he got busted for scanning a bar code for carrots worth $9 to purchase a $13 box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts.

Simon Read unsuccessfully told a disciplinary panel he had made an honest mistake at the self-service checkout in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.