Weird BUT true

They were a bit off target. A police SWAT team blocked off several blocks of downtown Idaho Falls, Idaho, hunting for a suspected rooftop sniper.

But the shooter turned out to be a teen with a scope and pellet gun hunting pigeons atop a supermarket roof.

The 16yearold was not arrested, and police left after an hourlong lockdown.

A Michigan couple got their kicks on Route 66 and just about every other road in America over the past decade.

Jonathan and Jennifer Riehl recently took a car ferry to Nantucket in Massachusetts and have now driven in all 3,108 counties in the 48 contiguous United States.

They began their journey in 2006 and used their 1999 Dodge Intrepid for all of it.

They say they have plans to drive in Alaska and Hawaii.

This was one twisted mess of a bigrig crash.

A truck spilled its load of Twizzlers licorice on Interstate 70 near Rostraver, Pa.

The crash took place at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, and shut down I70 between exits 43 and 44 for hours.

The driver was not seriously hurt, and the highway reopened for rush hour.

Kentucky authorities stumbled on some backyard bourbon — but this was fine hooch and not moonshine.

Franklin County sheriff’s deputies found five barrels of bourbon stolen from the Wild Turkey Distillery.

The suspect hid the stolen spirits, worth between $3,700 and $6,000 per barrel, in his back yard, the deputies said.

German archaeologists have unearthed two pretzels — between 200 and 300 years old — near the site of a longago shuttered bakery.

The petrified twists were discovered in the city of Regensburg, on the banks of the Danube.

The found pretzels and other baked goods had been badly burned, which is why they survived the centuries.

Carbon dating placed the pretzels to sometime between 1700 and 1800.