Weird BUT true

Eat your heart out, Lassie. A loyal pet pooch led an off-duty cop to the pup’s missing elderly owner in the New Jersey woods.

Fred Rapp, 78, crashed his car near Toms River, sparking a nine-hour search via drone and Humvee, cops said. By chance, Charles Brooks — who was hunting nearby — spotted the pup alone on a trail and followed him to the missing man.

What were the odds? Investigators are probing a possible $5.7 million lottery scam in South Africa after a rare sequence of numbers was drawn: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.

A total of 20 people each won $370,000 after buying tickets with the winning PowerBall numbers, prompting accusations of a scheme.

There’s snow way to sleep through this!

A freak “thundersnow” storm unleashed such a loud boom in Scotland Friday, residents thought an airplane had crashed.

Edinburgh residents called cops before learning the wild weather phenomenon — in which thunder strikes during heavy snowfall — had caused the deafening blast.

A bumbling jailbird flew the coop in Florida — and made a crash landing.

Dalton Ayers’ great escape was foiled after he allegedly swiped a guard’s truck, then promptly got into a wreck in Orlando, authorities said.

The 23-year-old was taken back into custody less than an hour after he bolted from the Central Florida Reception Center.

This cow didn’t swim like a fish.

A bovine broke free from a pen in Connecticut and fell into a backyard pool, where she had to be rescued.

The animal plunged through the cover of the pool in Bethlehem and got stuck Thursday night, prompting fire fighters to hoof it to the home.

They cut the critter free, helped her swim to the shallow end and lifted her out with ropes.