Weird BUT true

He had a lousy and drowsy lawyer.

So James Nassida, a Pittsburgh businessman convicted of mortgage fraud, has won a new trial.

Nassida’s lawyer, Stan Levenson, wasn’t “functioning as counsel” because he was seen sleeping through parts of Nassida’s October trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

A Cleveland police dispatcher was also snoozing for a bruising.

Jasmin Thomas was recently suspended for six days after being caught sleeping during two emergency calls, authorities said.

On one, Thomas began snoring five seconds after answering the recorded call, authorities said. On the other, it reportedly took her 10 seconds to answer and 40 seconds to transfer to firefighters the call about a burning stove.

Milwaukee airport security seized a strange potsmoking device that looked like a grenade — because it once was a grenade.

The unit, made from an inert grenade, padlocks and a metal box, is too risky because “we don’t know grenades are inert until our explosives professionals take a closer look, and that takes time and slows down the line,” according to the TSA at General Mitchell International Airport.

These New Jersey twin sisters have a lot in common — including sons born on the very same day.

Danielle Grant and Kim Abraham, 32, delivered their babies within hours of each other Friday at Ocean Medical Center in Brick, NJ.

“We laughed because we always thought it would happen,” Grant said. “And then it actually did happen.”

A Florida con could get 15 years behind bars for an illadvised Facebook posting.

Christopher Brinson, barred from touching a gun after drug, theft and battery convictions, posted a video of himself singing, dancing and waving a gun, cops say. Brinson claims the gun was a toy.