New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

What a pest. A German dominoes team spent two weeks carefully setting up 600,000 tiles to break a world record — only to be foiled by a single fly.

The 20-strong group had almost completed the massive undertakin­g at a gym in Nidda, near Frankfort, when the pesky bug landed on a domino and triggered the chain reaction prematurel­y.

They had hoped to set the Guinness World Record for most mini-dominoes toppled at once.

A heartless North Carolina crook put the squeeze on a 9-year-old’s organiclem­onade stand — jabbing a gun into the boy’s stomach and demanding cash.

The kid had been selling lemonade to raise money for his lawn-mowing business in Monroe when the teenage bandit struck.

The jerk made off with $13. Cops later found a BB gun in nearby woods.

When you gotta go, you gotta go.

A 10-year-old Israeli boy who was busted behind the wheel of his dad’s car told cops he swiped it to drive his little brother to a bathroom.

The pint-sized joyrider was caught cruising with his 8-year-old sibling near the southern village of Lakiya.

An 80-year-old Michigan woman wants to light up without getting tossed in the joint.

Delores Saltzman, of Lake George, smokes cannabis to cope with arthritis and intestinal pain. But she was sent to jail overnight because her medical-marijuana card had expired, she said.

Saltzman said a deputy came to her home to return a lost phone, smelled pot smoke and searched the house for her small personal weed stash.

A British Airways employee says it’s shear madness that he was fired over his “man bun.”

London customer-service worker Sid Ouared, 26, was canned because he refused to snip his locks to fit a company uniform policy that he calls “ridiculous and sexist.”

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