New York Post

Weird BUT true

- David K. Li, Post Wires

She’s not wrong. A West Virginia motorist who allegedly plowed into six parked cars and blew a .20 bloodalcoh­ol level told cops her name was “Hell on Wheels.”

Police later found her real name was Amanda Dolores Alleman and charged her with drunken driving and driving without insurance. That’s “taking” a cab. Luis OrellanaRi­vera, 26, was discharged from Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, Iowa, and immediatel­y stole a taxi cab, according to police.

When they caught up with him and asked why he did it, OrellanaRi­vera said he didn’t want to walk the six blocks home, cops said.

Diamonds are the best friends of these newlyweds.

Larry Casteel and Debbie Gould tied the knot at home plate of a softball field in Morgantown, W.Va., where they met nine years ago when he was an umpire and she was a player in a recleague softball game.

And another world record has crumbled.

Some 60 French and Italian bakers labored on Sunday to make a 400foot baguette in Milan, which Guinness World Records officials certified as the longest ever made.

The publicity stunt was sponsored by Nutella. The recordlong French bread was cut and smeared with the hazelnut spread and given away to people attending Milan World’s Fair.

An end to the digital divide: A woman has been reunited with her fingers more than 80 years after they were chopped off.

Jessie Fendell died in 1933 from an accidental fall and her fingers were used for years as a prop, teaching copsintrai­ning how to take postmortem prints.

Staff at the New Zealand Police Museum found the fingers and then tracked down Brian Collinge, a great nephew. Cops and Collinge attended a ceremony to place Fendell’s fingers, in a wooden box, in her grave.

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