Weird But True

Weird but true

This complainer is in hog hell.

A neighbor of the San Francisco eatery Bacon Bacon complained to the city about the scent of fried pork wafting through Haight-Ashbury.

The anonymous complaint surfaced as Bacon Bacon reapplied for an operating permit.

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The hairy truth is out there — and these people aim to find it.

The 12th annual Bigfoot Conference kicked off this weekend in Fort Worth, Tex., with participants swapping stories of tracking the famed Sasquatch.

Alleged sightings of a hirsute, manlike creature have proliferated since the 1800s but have never been proven.

Undeterred by a lack of concrete evidence, the members of the 13-year-old group also organize Operation Thicket Probe and Operation Forest Vigil to hunt Bigfoot.

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Parents in Texas have a new weapon at their disposal: a drug-sniffing dog.

For $350, a private investigator in Granbury, Texas, offers peace of mind to worried parents by having his trained pooch sniff out their kids’ hiding places.

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She’s no material monkey.

Madonna has given birth — Madonna the squirrel monkey, that is.

The monkey with the famous moniker welcomed her furry offspring last week at the Virginia Zoo.

Squirrel monkeys are native to Central and South America — and this one just wanted to have fun.

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A Scottish politician in Britain’s House of Commons has gotten himself banned from all eight parliament bars after a second drunken run-in with police.

Eric Joyce, 59, was arrested last week after he was told he couldn’t take his drink outside and reacted with rage.

Last year, he was forced to leave the Labor Party after he got into an intoxicated brawl with fellow politicians at a different bar.