New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill and Valentina Jaramillo, with Wire Services

Eat your heart out, Mighty Mouse.

Rats with tiny backpacks and microphone­s are being taught to burrow into earthquake rubble to find survivors, according to researcher­s in Scotland.

Over the past two weeks, at least seven soon-to-be rodent heroes were trained, using a series of beeping signals in the Glasgow area.

She was sitting on a gold mine!

Vicky Umodu, of San Bernardino County, Calif., found $36,000 in a sofa she got for free on Craigslist.

Stunned, Umodu contacted the family who gave her the couch, that had belonged to a deceased relative, to return the dough.

The family rewarded her with $2,200 for a new fridge.

Moo-ve it or lose it!

A cow escaped from a trailer and made a mad dash for freedom down a busy Oklahoma highway— snarling traffic during morning rush hour.

Udderly wild footage shows the brazen bovine hoofing it down the middle of Interstate 40 in Oklahoma City, chased by men on horses with lassos who eventually caught her.

A hot-and-bothered crook burst into a Los Angeles sex shop, whipped out a semiautoma­tic handgun — and stole nothing but a kinky toy off the wall.

Cops are hunting for the man, caught on camera in a face mask and baseball cap, who took no money.

Rocker Kate Bush’s album “Hounds of Love” climbed to the top of the Billboard music chart for the first time this week — more than 37 years after its release.

The British singer’s power ballad “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” which in 1985 peaked at No. 30, got a boost from appearing last month in the Netflix hit “Stranger Things.”

The record hit No. 1 in the Top Alternativ­e Albums category on Tuesday.

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