Weird BUT true

They got the wrong guy! A British tourist was arrested at gunpoint in the Netherlands after being mistaken for a wanted Mafia boss.

The man was nabbed while at a restaurant with his son on a warrant issued by the Italian authorities, who believed the visitor, identified only as Mark L, was actually Matteo Messina Denaro, a Sicilian crime lord allegedly behind bombings in 1993 that left 10 people dead and 93 injured.

He “shire” is committed. An Italian man has decided to live and dress as a hobbit from “The Lord of the Rings.”

Nicolas Gentile, a 37-yearold pastry chef, even has plans to transform a plot of land in the town of Bucchianico into his own personal shire, the hobbit village from JRR Tolkien’s saga.

The fantasy fan’s Instagram page My Hobbit Life, chronicling his adventures with friends, has more than 100,000 followers.

It’s up in the air. Police are investigating the source of a balloon that caused a massive blackout in a German city.

Some 300,000 households, plus hospitals, trams and factories in Dresden were affected when the metal-foil balloon apparently led to an electricity-substation shortcircuit Monday.

Cops said they believe the hourlong blackout was the result of a careless incident.

Bah humbug. Tourists in a Welsh seaside town have been warned not to take selfies with goats on cliffs.

The coast guard in Llandudno said it received reports of visitors posing precariously in the area’s rocky outcrops, where a wild herd of about 122 Kashmiri goats has been roaming freely during the COVID-19 lockdown.

A tattoo just wasn’t enough. A South Carolina man with “ATM” inked on his neck was busted — for trying to steal an ATM.

Andre Omar Martin, 20, and his buddies allegedly tried to swipe the machine from the parking lot of a grocery store on Johns Island.