Weird BUT true

This rumor was made of “Whole” cloth.

A rash of signs has been popping up on fences around vacant lots all over Anchorage, Alaska, announcing that Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s and other big-name companies are coming soon. Except they aren’t. “I wish I could tell you it was true, but it’s not,” sighed Bill Popp, of the Anchorage Economic Development Corp.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men will have to find Humpty Dumpty again.

Someone swiped a sculpture of the egg-shaped literary figure from the San Diego County Fair, where it won honorable mention at this year’s art competition.

The sculpture is 13 inches tall and weighs between 15 and 20 pounds.

Her breeding business was for the birds.

A Northern California woman must curtail her backyard bird-breeding operation because the smell, noise and flies were driving her neighbors nuts.

The woman keeps 500 parrots and other tropical birds, which she sells on Craigslist for between $650 to $1,600. Alameda County sheriff ’s deputies ordered her to reduce the flock to 50.

Please don’t use your ’copter for coffee runs.

Back in March, a Canadian Coast Guard pilot landed his craft in an empty field in the town of O’Leary on Prince Edward Island, just so he could walk to a Tim Hortons for coffee.

Officials said he has been warned not to do it again.

After Jordan Macgillivary picks up his diploma in Nova Scotia, Canada, Thursday, he’ll deliver the valedictorian address — to no one.

This year, Macgillivary is the only graduate of Advocate District School, which has 60 students total in grades six through 12.

Macgillivary said he has always liked his close-knit campus. All his schoolmates have said they’ll be at his one-man commencement.