New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Kathianne Boniello with Post Wire Services

They must have been pissed.

Four drivers were arrested for DUI after stopping at the scene of a motorcycle accident because the road was blocked in St. Petersburg, Fla.

The cops realized the drivers were under the influence when they approached the vehicles to explain the reason for the roadblock. Pedal to the meddle. A Bellevue, Wash., woman confused the brake pedal for the gas as she wrapped up her driver’s exam — and ended up smashing the car through the front window of the drivingins­truction school administer­ing the test.

“She was doing great up until that very last part,” said Seth Tyler of the Bellevue Police Department.

El Niño has some bite this year — and some venom, too.

The weather phenomenon is believed to have deposited a dangerous yellowbell­ied sea snake on the shores of Southern California, according to a local environmen­tal group.

The snake, which lives in the ocean, hasn’t been seen in California since the 1980s.

They “methed” with the wrong community.

An entire Florida neighborho­od applauded as cops hauled away a couple accused of turning their Choctaw Beach residence into a methamphet­amine lab.

Jimmy Ray Thomas and Kayla Ailey were led off in handcuffs as other residents gave officers an ovation.

“The entire neighborho­od knew what this man was doing and they wanted him behind bars,” Sheriff Mike Adkinson said.

We would have called them chazzwazze­rs.

More than 17,000 people have signed a petition to change the name of Australia’s currency to Dollarydoo — a reference to an episode of “The Simpsons.”

The petition argues that switching the name of the currency from the Australian dollar would spark the country’s economy.

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