New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Chris Perez, Wires

Somewhere, Slash is smiling.

A New Hampshire-based instrument company manufactur­ed a 17-string guitar for an upcoming music video.

The electric beast was created by Olson Guitarwork­s after being commission­ed by YouTuber Jared Dines.

Being a bomb-sniffing dog can be ruff work.

Just ask Lulu, an adorable black Labrador who was dropped from a CIA training program after she “began to show signs that she wasn’t interested in detecting explosive odors.”

The pooch was being trained for the Fairfax County Police Department in Virginia when agents discovered she wasn’t having it.

She was adopted by her handler, and now spends her days sniffing for squirrels instead.

He says he really got shafted by the penal system.

Dustin Lance, 32, claims in a $5 million lawsuit that he suffered permanent injury from a 91-hour erection in December 2016, after staff at the Pittsburg County, Okla., jail ignored his pleas for medical care and mocked him.

Zookeepers on the British island territory of St. Helena have discovered that the world’s oldest tortoise, 186-year-old Jonathan, has been courting a member of the same sex all along.

Keepers were inspecting a lesion on the “female” love interest’s shell when they discovered that Frederica was actually Frederic.

Jonathan has been getting frisky with Frederic for more than two decades.

Moon room soon? Japanese scientists discovered a massive cave on the moon that could one day serve as shelter for colonizing astronauts.

The country’s Selenologi­cal and Engineerin­g Explorer, or SELENE, probe uncovered the cave — measuring about 30 miles long by 330 feet wide — under an area called the Marius Hills.

It is believed to have been created from volcanic activity about 3.5 billion years ago.

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