New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

An airplane fuel cap fell from the heavens and nearly struck a Florida woman sitting outside at her home.

Dara Hackett said she and a pal were talking on the patio of her Winter Garden abode when they heard a loud bang. They later found the 8-inch metal cap.

This bull wanted some moo-la.

A steer escaped from a farm and made a dash into a Colorado Springs bank, sending customers scattering.

The 16-year-old longhorn, named Theme De Loof, hoofed it to Plaza of the Rockies, where he was eventually lassoed.

The taxman was dead wrong!

A Pennsylvan­ia man was nearly fleeced out of thousands of dollars because the IRS mistakenly thought he had croaked.

John Bowen, of Reading, waited for months to get a $5,500 tax return in the mail before calling and writing officials at the agency multiple times.

When he finally got in touch with a worker, Bowen was told a computer glitch had determined he had died in February. He got the dough with interest.

These surgeons aren’t the full package.

A British man went under the knife for a minor bladder procedure — and when he awoke was stunned to find doctors had circumcise­d him.

Terry Brazier, 70, claims staffers at the Leicester Royal Infirmary mixed up their notes and performed the painful snip on the wrong guy. He was awarded $24,000 for the screw-up.

Vienna straphange­rs don’t want their trains to smell like green tea, grapefruit, sandalwood or melon.

Transit honchos released the fragrances in the ventilatio­n systems of four trains on two of the network’s five lines last month, and asked straphange­rs if they like it.

Roughly 21,000 people said no, while 16,000 said yes.

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