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Paging Seymour Butts. A trickster pulled a Bart Simpson-style prank on a Virginia school board by signing up funny fake names to speak at a meeting — including Eileen Dover, Wayne Kerr and Phil McCracken.

Henrico School Board member Roscoe Cooper is shown on video earnestly calling out the knee-slapper names that were also apparently lost on the crowd.

Fido knows when you screwed the pooch.

Dogs may understand when their owners make clumsy mistakes, according to new research.

In a Harvard University study, 51 pups were taught to eat treats through a glass partition that they could move around.

When owners accidentally dropped the treats, the dogs ran around the glass to get the grub. But when owners intentionally set the treats on the ground, the pets waited obediently behind the partition.

Now she’s free . . . as the wind.

A Florida woman accused of loudly farting in a store and then pulling a knife on a man who criticized her for it will no longer face charges.

Shanetta Wilson, 40 — who allegedly threatened to “gut” fellow shopper John Walker, 58 — saw her case dropped in Broward County Court when Walker refused to participate.

An emu on the run ruffled feathers this week when it sparked a police chase through a small Michigan town.

The flightless escape artist, named Healy-Mu, broke free from a farm in Vestaburg and was on the lam for a day before she was ultimately wrangled by her owners.

He thinks technology bites. An alligator in Florida snapped a low-flying drone out of the air with its massive mouth and chomped down on it, wild footage shows.

In the controversial TikTok video, people were shown pestering the gator with the gadget as they tried to shoot “up-close” video in the Everglades. But the gator emerged as the chomp-ion.