New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

Go home, city slickers! Residents of an Old West ghost town have been yelling at tourists so often, cops had to warn them to stop, or face harassment charges.

Folks living in the tiny town of Jerome, Ariz. — which is flooded with roughly 1 million visitors annually — should stop shouting at outof-towners and leaving nasty notes on their cars, police announced.

Bureaucrat­s better smile — or else!

The mayor of a city in the Philippine­s has ordered all government workers to grin while serving the public or face disciplina­ry action.

Mulanay mayor Aristotle Aguirre adopted the socalled “smile policy” to combat low spirits among staffers.

“Frowning is prohibited,” he said in a recent speech.

She’s wheely unlucky. Thieves stole the wheels off a Washington, DC, woman’s car three times in nine months, she said.

Surveillan­ce footage shows Kelly Roark’s black Honda being stripped Tuesday by crooks, who left it propped up on crates.

The same thing happened in March and October, she said.

They gave him a leg up. A Michigan man’s $80,000 prosthetic leg was retrieved by a local dive team after it fell off and sank to the bottom of a lake, a report said.

Brandon Smith was swimming with his 6-year-old son in Sunrise Lake in Milford Township Sunday, when the prosthesis plunged 50 feet.

The Oakland County Sheriff ’s Office arrived and recovered the limb from the water in just 10 minutes.

It was a hard pill for this suspected crook to swallow.

An alleged serial pharmacy robber in Michigan was finally busted when a pharmacist handed him a fake pill bottle with a tracker inside, authoritie­s said.

Kristopher Kukola is accused of swiping thousands of dollars in pills from CVS pharmacies in the Van Buren area between May 24 and July 7.

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