Weird BUT true

Some New Mexico thieves probably got more than they bargained for when they stole a couple’s SUV and UHaul trailer — with a casket and body inside.

A short time after the theft in an Albuquerque hotel parking lot, cops found the 2005 Chevy Trailblazer and trailer abandoned with the remains of the wife’s dad.

The couple had been driving to body from Oklahoma for burial in Kirtland, NM. He’s “dam” lucky. A Welshman on a drunken bender became the first person to swim across the Hoover Dam reservoir and live to tell about it.

Arron Hughes, a 28-yearold forklift driver who said he “hadn’t stopped drinking all week” in Vegas, survived the 660-foot swim because nine of the dam’s 10 hydroelectric turbines were off at the time. He was fined $250.

Scorpions — not snakes — on a plane!

American Airlines canceled a Dallas-bound flight in Sacramento, Calif., on Sunday after a scorpion was found on board.

“We want passengers and crews to feel comfortable,” said airline spokeswoman Leslie Scott.

It was a “high” seize off a California beach.

Orange County sheriff ’s deputies recovered nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana on a boat off of Calafia Beach on Sunday and busted the boat’s two occupants, police said.

A Texas A&M professor is getting very high marks — as a teacher and baby sitter.

Dr. Henry Musoma became an Internet sensation after he was photographed lecturing a class while holding a student’s baby.

The business prof had volunteered to play sitter after the boy’s single mom, Ashton Robinson, e-mailed him saying she would miss his class because her childcare plans fell through.

“Being a single mom is so challenging but it’s people like Dr. Henry Musoma that make life just a tiny bit easier!” she wrote on Facebook.