New York Post

Weird BUT true

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It wasn’t a shotgun wedding, just a servicerev­olver ceremony.

A young couple set to tie the knot at the Kalamazoo, Mich., courthouse was shocked to find it closed due to severe weather.

Luckily, a local cop with power to officiate at weddings married the lovebirds. The cop had his gun on him and went on his regular afternoon shift after pronouncin­g the couple man and wife.

The Kalamazoo Police Department said in a statement that it was pleased to solve another crisis.

Drinking, driving and theft don’t mix in New Hampshire.

A man who stole money from a gasstation cash register might have gotten away with it if he wasn’t drinking and driving, too, officials said.

Daniel Wilson, 27, was arrested after grabbing cash from the fill station in Rochester, NH, and then slamming his getaway car into a parked vehicle, according to police.

This is no way to treat a war hero.

A jealous bloke got a slap on the wrist after beating up a doubleampu­tee British war vet whom he caught in bed with his recently separated wife, officials said.

Harry Pattison, 28, got off with just a suspended jail sentence after rouging up defenseles­s Tom Lawlor, 24, who lost both his legs to a Taliban bomb.

San Francisco, open your Golden Gate!

The city’s most iconic landmark was closed to car traffic all weekend — the longest closure in the span’s 77year history.

Workers spent the weekend installing new metal medians designed to prevent headon crashes.

Two passengers on a jetliner in the Chinese city of Chengdu had it with their plane idling on the runway.

They protested by opening the emergency exits, which did get the jet moving — back to the gate, where they were arrested.

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