Weird BUT true

Riley McCoy of Dana Hills HS in Southern California was elected homecoming queen and honored at the school’s football game — no easy task, considering her incredibly rare genetic disorder, which makes UV rays deadly.

McCoy wears a NASAmade, beekeeper-like clear protective shield over her face every day to block out the sun. Before she could be honored at the game, tests were taken at the football stadium to make sure the lighting wouldn’t be harmful. This “rat” helped kitten. An inmate at Avenal State Prison in California ratted out a guard who kicked and injured the feral feline.

The vulnerable furball was treated by a vet and has been adopted by a different guard — while the alleged offending jailer is now under investigation, officials said last week.

The Board of Selectmen in Brookline, Mass., wants a new name for itself.

The government panel is considering proposals for a gender-neutral title.

One proposal — by Michael A. Burstein, a member of the town’s library board — even called for the body to be named the Board of Selectwomen, no matter if the rep is male or female. He’s no Anthony Hopkins. A Pennsylvania man has been ordered to stand trial on charges he threatened a judge by sending her a letter with a picture of Hannibal Lecter — the cannibal played by Hopkins in “Silence of the Lambs.”

Gregg Tchirkow, of Monessen, told a court the cinematic threat against Westmoreland County Judge Meagan Bilik-Defazio was really just a “cry for help.”

Bilik-Defazio sent Tchirkow to prison in 2005 on drug charges.

An Indiana man who knocked off a BP filling station was caught a short time later — when he ran out of gas, LaPorte police said.

Sean Harris, 33, told the clerk he had a gun and took off with food and cigarettes, cops said.