Weird BUT TRUE

A Phoenix-area cop first tried compassion, responding to a naked woman’s claim that she had been a sex-crime victim at a gas station in Gila Bend, Ariz.

But when the Maricopa Sheriff ’s deputy went around to the trunk of his cruiser to retrieve a blanket for her, she jumped into the car and took off — leading cops on a wild, 7¹/2 mile chase before crashing along I-10 in Elroy, officials said.

She was taken into custody and hospitalized.

Fat chance this would fool Texas police.

Austin cops pulled over Florentino Herrera, 48, for driving erratically, officials said.

But a squad-car dashcam caught Herrara trying to hide cocaine in a fold of stomach fat, and he was charged with DWI and evidence tampering, authorities said.

Worst bank robber ever! Alvin Lee Neal, 56, this week was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison for robbing a Wells Fargo bank in San Diego on May 13.

Moments before demanding money, Neal inexplicably swiped his ATM card in a reader at the teller’s window — revealing his identity, officials said.

Hot damn! A Boy Scout leader in Fredericksburg, Texas, sweated, strained, huffed and puffed while eating 23 ghost peppers — and it paid.

Johnny Fotschky’s stunt has raised $1,000 for his Troop 137 since it was posted on YouTube.

Fotschky, who got sick from the pepper, considered one of the world’s hottest foods, wants an official do-over in his bid to set a Guinness World Record.

A 911 call to complain about a Longview, Texas, neighbor ended up getting the caller arrested.

When caller Randy Linwood, 62, didn’t answer cops’ knocks on his front door, they entered a rear door and found 2 pounds of marijuana on a table, cops said.