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Weird true BUT

- Jackie Salo, Wires

There’s an elephant in the room.

A Thai family got a scare when an elephant rammed its head through a wall of their kitchen.

Ratchadawa­n Puengpraso­ppon said she was awoken by noise early Saturday to find the beast, named Boonchuay, rifling through drawers and knocking over pans at her home in the southern Hua Hin district.

A Michigan man nearly tossed out a winning $500,000 lottery ticket after he misread the numbers.

The 74-year-old man told lottery officials that he bought the ticket from a gas station in Grand Rapids.

“I scratched the ticket off and thought it was a loser,” he recalled. “I looked it over one more time before throwing it away and realized I’d matched the seven.”

They cracked this case. A California trucker has been busted for allegedly stealing 21 tons of pistachios.

Alberto Montemayor, of Montemayor Trucking, was arrested last week after the Touchstone Pistachio Co. of Fresno realized the nuts were missing and authoritie­s tracked town a tractor-trailer with the allegedly pilfered pistachios inside.

Two California brothers claim they have broken a record for longest highline ever walked in the state and Yosemite National Park.

Moises and Daniel Monterrubi­o navigated the 2,800foot-long line from Taft Point west over six days this month. The balancing act beat the previous 954-foot record in Yosemite.

Ram on the lam! Authoritie­s in New Zealand are trying to track down a sheep that has escaped an animal shelter.

The ram, known as Duggy, was brought to the shelter in New Plymouth last week after he was caught trying to head-butt pedestrian­s — but the sly animal broke out the next day.

“This character pulled the wool over our eyes and made a dash from our Pound,” the city’s District Council said.

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