Weird true BUT

A Michigan tree trimmer solved this cat-astrophe.

Erick Baker, of Tip Top Tree Care, shimmied up ropes to rescue a cat stuck 50 feet up in a tree in Richmond Park in Grand Rapids.

“It wasn’t my first cat rescue,” Baker said. “I’ve got a couple under my belt.”

The monkey business is over.

A patas monkey who escaped from his enclosure at the Taipei Zoo in Taiwan on Monday was recaptured on Thursday.

Zookeepers found Nan Dao, an 8-year-old male monkey, asleep in a trap they had baited with apples and cookies and placed near a speaker that played patas monkey calls.

This kid is quick on his toes. An 8-year-old boy from Bangalore, India, broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to solve three Rubik’s puzzle cubes simultaneously using his hands — and feet.

“The training was never difficult because I enjoyed solving the puzzles with both hands and feet,” said Atharva R. Bhat, who did the job in 1 minute, 29.97 seconds.

It wasn’t a clean getaway. A raccoon invaded a North Ridgeville, Ohio, home — and took a nap in the dishwasher, authorities said.

“Apparently said raccoon busted through the bathroom light, ransacked the kitchen, then took a well-deserved nap in the washer,” local police said in a Facebook post.

The critter was safely removed.

A Georgia man says a feud with his former boss ended in penny-ante antics.

Andreas Flaten said that when he gave his two weeks’ notice at Walker Luxury Autoworks in Peachtree City this past November, his boss was furious.

Flaten said he was owed a final paycheck in January. When it didn’t come, he complained to Georgia’s Department of Labor.

Five months later, his boss paid up — leaving $915 worth of pennies, weighing 504 pounds, in Flaten’s driveway.