Weird BUT true

Beachgoers along Florida’s Space Coast got a recent jolt.

They found hundreds of sealed Café Bustelo coffee cans and vacuumpacked coffee bricks washed ashore Tuesday in Indialantic.

They scooped up the free java believed to have fallen off a barge between Cape Canaveral and Palm Beach.

Not quite a winter wonderland.

A low, dense fog combined with condensation from a sewer plant in State College, Pa., Monday created a putrid dusting of snow across a threesquaremile region.

The disgusting dusting was a brief winterscape for a region in the midst of an unseasonably warm late fall, said the National Weather Service.

This Christmas stocking will need a lot of gifts to fill it.

Knitters from all 50 states and four Canadian provinces have combined to make a 7,700squarefoot, 1,600pound Christmas stocking that will be unveiled Saturday in Fayetteville, NC.

Organizers hope their oversized Christmas stocking sets a world record.

It’s not quite Santa’s sleigh.

But Pittsburgharea bus operator Bill Sanfilippo spent 10 hours dressing up his bus with Christmas lights, a lifesized Santa, a rednosed Rudolph and other holiday doodads — plus holiday music.

A homeless man in filthyrich Aspen, Colo., has won a huge sixdigit payout in a lottery scratchoff game.

Michael Engfors, 60, built wood trim, doors and shelves for many of the mansions around Aspen before an economic downturn pushed him into homelessness.

He’d been doing odd jobs for five years before purchasing $10 of scratchers recently that turned into the $500,000 jackpot. He took the instant, aftertax payout of more than $300,000.