Weird But True

Weird but true

These Florida carjackers were poor planners.

Two thieves in Orlando forced a Corvette owner out of his pricey ride at gunpoint . . . but didn’t know how to put the manual transmission into drive.

With the weapon trained on him, “I had to tell [the driver] four different times to push the clutch,” the ’Vette owner recounted. The robbers fled on foot.

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A double DMV standard, perhaps?

A Florida man who legally took his new wife’s surname got hassled by the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles a year after he submitted paperwork and obtained a new driver’s license reflecting the change.

Lazaro Dinh, né Sopena, got a DMV letter saying his license had been suspended because only married women can make such a surname change.

But bureaucrats quickly changed course after the media reported the story.

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But they’re already getting paid for doughnut breaks!

Cops in Teaneck, NJ, are suing to get overtime, compensation for reporting to two daily roll calls — 10 minutes before the start of their tours and 10 minutes after — and for “donning and doffing” uniforms and equipment.

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This was like having a car alarm going off, only 1,000 times worse.

Thousands of residents of Suffolk, Va., were holding their ears for hours yesterday after a freight train’s air horn started malfunctioning and blaring so loud that it could be heard across most of the city.

The horn went off at about 6 p.m., sending some residents into a panic.

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Cops in Stockholm, Sweden stormed a house after getting a report of screams and gunfire — only to find that the occupants were caught up in a rousing session of the video game “Call of Duty.”

Nearly a dozen cops had responded.