Weird BUT true

What a ding-dong. A thief who stole a package off a Tracy, Calif., homeowner’s porch noticed he was being video-recorded by a doorbell surveillance camera, police said.

So he tried to pry the camera free, failed, fled — and in the process left behind a sharper image of his face. Well dung, Sir! In a bid to thwart elephant poachers, an American scientist and his colleagues have collected and catalogued pachyderm poop from all over Africa.

Samuel Wasser of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington says doody DNA is matched to that from seized ivory, helping African law-enforcement agencies pinpoint and arrest regional poachers.

The situation was something of a hot potato.

Terri-Jade Barwell was walking her three dogs in Clifton, England, when one dug up something that looked like a potato.

Barwell brought it home, where her boyfriend determined that it was no potato — but an old hand grenade.

A bomb squad safely disposed of it.

Scientists have found that Stone Age humans weren’t just a bunch of dumb cavemen — they were also highseas sailors.

Researchers believe they have found evidence in Crete that the ancient humans were able to reach there by crossing the Mediterranean in a boat some 130,000 years ago, according to Science Magazine. What a flippin’ idiot. Timothy Hill, 67, a British driver, beat speeding tickets by using an illegal laser jammer. And he would have gotten away with it if he hadn’t flipped the bird at the traffic camera each day.

“If you want to attract our attention, repeatedly gesturing at police camera vans with your middle finger” is how, authorities said as Hill was sentenced to eight months in prison for using the laser jammer.