Weird BUT true

He swung, but hit a fowl. A riled Indiana man is fighting a ticket for animal cruelty after he used a plastic bat to smack a goose that attacked his son.

James McDaniel claims the Canada goose jetted across a field in Indianapolis and attacked the 4-year-old.

Officials said people can use a “reasonable amount of force” to protect themselves or others from wildlife.

A California police department is offering to make sure drug users’ meth is gluten free.

The Newark Police Department posted a photo on Facebook showing some crystal meth and a glass pipe with the caption: “Is your meth laced with deadly gluten? Not sure? Bring your meth down to the PD and we will test it for you for free!”

No one has taken up the cops’ friendly offer.

A 39-year-old Australian man bristled with pain after he accidentally swallowed a wire from a barbecue brush.

A few days after attending a barbecue, the unlucky Coffs Harbour man went to the emergency room three times complaining of abdominal pain. Each time, he was given painkillers and sent home.

The fourth time, he was sent for a CT scan that showed the metal bristle. A surgeon fished it out.

A black bear that tried raiding a locked trash can in Salem, Va., got a fright when it activated the laughing mechanism on a creepy clown doll that the owners had strapped to its side.

The clown’s menacing cackle spooked the bear, whose escape was caught on the home’s security camera.

An Irish beach that disappeared 33 years ago is back.

The sand that made up Achill Island’s Dooagh beach, which was washed away in 1984, reappeared after recent high tides stirred up by wind storms.

The area has been gridlocked with cars and campers ever since.