Weird true BUT

Three candidates with the same name — and same facial hair — are running for a legislative seat in Russia.

The incumbent, Boris Vishnevsky, a member of an opposition party, claims the other two candidates for St. Petersburg’s Legislative Assembly changed their names and appearances to confuse voters.

“What kind of a person do you have to be to change your name, surname and also your appearance to please your political boss?” Vishnevsky told Reuters.

It’s a case of beer and loathing.

Flying Dog brewery is suing the North Carolina Alcohol Beverage Control Commission after the agency blocked artwork for a beer label.

Freezin’ Season Winter Ale’s label includes a cartoon of a naked man at a camp fire by artist Ralph Steadman, best known for his illustrations of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” writer Hunter S. Thompson’s work.

Singapore is testing robots that will seek out bad behavior such as smoking in public and breaking COVID-19 restrictions.

If the Xavier patrol robots find people up to no good they’ll automatically alert real-life police officers.

The surveillance-obsessed country is planning to more than double its police cameras to over 200,000, Reuters said.

Someone has gone bananas over poor road conditions.

A banana tree was planted in a massive Fort Myers, Fla., pothole, WINK News reported.

It isn’t clear who planted the tree on private road Honda Drive, but it’s viewed as a call that the potholes on the street need to be filled.

Pope Francis sent 15,000 ice-cream treats to prisoners in Italy during one of the country’s hottest summers on record.

The Vatican said Tuesday gelato was shipped to two prisons in Rome on behalf of the pontiff by Konrad Cardinal Krajewski.