Weird BUT true

A ditzy driver steered his car into the middle of a river in China because his GPS device told him to, according to police.

The man told cops he was headed down a dirt road in Anhui province when the navigation system directed him to keep going straight — into the water.

Canadian scientists studying ancient arctic ice were horrified when the freezer they used to store the precious stuff broke, melting hunks of it.

The $4 million freezer malfunctioned and soared to 100 degrees at the University of Alberta, researchers said.

They lost about 13 percent of the 80,000-year-old ice. Worst houseguest ever. A friend visiting the home of a retired Florida cop swiped an old uniform and tried to persuade pharmacy workers to give him drugs, according to a report.

Johnny Ray Wilson dressed up in the green deputy uniform and, gesturing to his badge, allegedly demanded pain pills from a pharmacist in Pensacola.

When she refused, he allegedly snatched a pair of pants and a soda and bolted from the shop without paying, cops said.

A Michigan woman channeled her inner evil stepmother when she choked a teenage girl for blocking her view of fireworks at Disney World.

Tabbatha Kaye Mature, 41, of New Baltimore allegedly flipped out and grabbed the girl by the throat as the victim stood in front of her at Disney’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando, cops said.

Mature was booked on charges of felony child abuse.

He has a clean conscience.

A garbage collector in Japan found $370,000 in the trash — but instead of pocketing it, he turned it in.

The honest worker, 63, found the dough inside a large container at a trash-disposal plant in Numata and immediately reported it.