Weird BUT true

Watch out for potholes. An Oklahoma mechanic found 41 pounds of marijuana hidden inside the dashboard of a 2007 Chevy TrailBlazer that had been purchased at a police auction years before.

“We joked about it a second, but [were] very nervous,” said the Midtown Automobile and Diesel Repair worker. “That amount of anything is scary to be around.” Nearly a cereal killer! A woman mistakenly shot her Fort Bragg, NC, soldier husband, believing he was an intruder, after he returned home with a surprise breakfast for her.

Zia Segule accidentally set off the house alarm when he entered, waking wife Tiffany, who then grabbed a shotgun and fired through the bedroom door.

He was not seriously hurt. Out-of-this-world weather. Mars sits about 140 million miles farther away from the sun than the Earth, but it was warmer there than many parts of the United States last week.

The daily high on Mars was 17.6 degrees F. on Thursday, while New Yorkers were shivering with temps of 8 degrees, the lowest since last January.

First responders were left playing “ketchup.”

Some 500 pounds of McDonald’s french fries were strewn across a busy South Dakota highway following a pileup of six vehicles, including a semi carrying the worldfamous spuds.

“We had to use a plow to move them off the road,” said Emergency Manager Brad Stiefvater of ironically appropriate McCook County.

He’s “pudding” his foot down.

Police were called to a Chinese allyoucaneat buffet restaurant in Manchester, England, after an angry customer demanded his money back when staffers closed the dessert section before he was finished.

The restaurant had failed to tell the customer he arrived 10 minutes before the buffet ended.