Weird BUT true
An Australian lovebird has been rejected by his crush.
The pigeon kept following a woman outside her Brisbane apartment, apparently convinced he’d win her over by doing a mating dance.
The woman said she told her stalker, “We have incompatible genitals, pigeon.’’ Her video of the birdbrain has gone viral.
All you need is a dollar and a fortune cookie.
Charles Svatos, a 92-yearold Iowa grandfather, won $390,000 in the state lottery.
He said he bought the winning ticket, in part, because he had eaten a fortune cookie that promised, “You will discover an unexpected treasure.’’
He added, “It’s hard to believe a fortune cookie. You can never believe them most of the time.’’
A half-dozen fugitives staged a breakout — but were easy to recognize and recapture because they were all wearing prison stripes.
It took place in a Hungarian town called Sopron, when a worker for the national circus failed to close a fence around the field where zebras were held.
None of the zebras was injured during the brief time on the run.
A parking ticket issued by New Mexico State University will cost you peanuts — make that peanut butter.
The school announced that motorists ticketed for not having a parking permit can have the ticket thrown out in return for at least 80 ounces of peanut butter.
The spread will be donated to a local food pantry.
A North Carolina man figured he’d found a great place to stash his weed . . . in some weeds.
Teon Shamal La’Shane Douglas, 21, was outside the courthouse in the town of Sanford waiting for his hearing on a probation violation when he decided it might not be a great idea to bring his pot inside.
So he tried to bury it in some bushes, but officers spotted him and placed him under arrest.