Weird BUT true

A “cheetah” staking out a yard near a Portland, Ore., zoo turned out to be only a life-sized stuffed animal.

“I used my ninja-like skills to sneak up on the beast,” joked a Multnomah County Sheriff ’s Deputy in a Facebook post, after being called to check on the beast.

“Of course, it sat there dumbfounded that I was able to get so close!”

A Canadian woman threw her dog under the bus.

After driving into a ditch, she gave police in Comox Valley, British Columbia, a far-fetched excuse.

“The dog was driving,” the 58-year-old insisted.

But cops sniffed alcohol on her breath and she was barred from the road for 90 days after refusing to provide a breath sample.

Early humans knew how to make winters “bearable,” new evidence suggests.

Europeans nearly half a million years ago may have dealt with the extreme cold by hibernating for months, experts have suggested after examining remains in an ancient mass grave in Spain.

The fossils show months of interrupted bone growth, similar to lesions found on the remains of hibernating mammals such as cave bears.

You better believe this. A group that has embarked on a mission to save a historic German church, plank by plank, includes at least one atheist.

The building dates back to 1905, but fell out of use in 2009, and it’s location in the middle of a forest makes it a frequent target for vandals.

Residents of nearby Stiege have decided to move the church into the center of town — by taking it apart and rebuilding it exactly how it was. Hans Powalla, a nonbeliever, says he’s part of the effort because the structure is of historical interest.

A St. Paul, Minn., man allegedly robbed five people in one hour and 10 minutes.

Brandon Lee Rock, 20, carjacked a man’s vehicle at gunpoint and then, with an accomplice, robbed four other people, police said.