Weird BUT true

Castleton University in Vermont recovered its missing mascot costume Monday and won’t look this gift horse in the mouth.

The greencaped Spartan mascot, simply named “Sparty,” had gone missing from studentgovernment offices between late September and the middle of October before it was found, unharmed, in the football stadium, school spokesman Jeff Weld said.

“Sparty just needed a break” after a busy homecoming weekend in late September, according to Weld.

A part of a National Weather Service device, attached to a small parachute, dented a car and drew a response from the bomb squad in Philadelphia.

The device was launched from Sterling, Va., Saturday before high winds carried it to Philly, officials said.

Yakima, Wash., chiropractor Ron Warninger recently discovered a piece of wedding cake from the March 17, 1915, nuptials of his grandparents, Inez and Harvey Warninger.

“The cake was put in their freezer or refrigerator and later my parents’ freezer,” Warninger said. “I remember seeing it as a kid in the ’50s and ’60s. So it made it through a couple of world wars and another 70 years.”

A long night of boozing for an Alaska woman ended in jail after she fled from one cab without paying by jumping into another and skipping that fare, too.

Gina Konig, 32, was “extremely intoxicated and combative” when state troopers finally caught up with her near the city of Soldotna, officials said.

Fighting crime is no laughing matter!

Shane Farberman, who was in full costume as “Doo Doo the Clown,” rescued two women who were being confronted by a high, emotionally disturbed person on a downtown Toronto street Sunday.

Farberman was honored at Toronto City Hall on Monday for his heroism.