Weird But True

Weird but true

Lassie regularly did it on TV — but Buddy saved his owner’s life for real.

A homeless man in Washington state who thought he might be dying tied a note to his dog’s harness and dispatched best friend Buddy to get help.

A woman walking her own pooch along railroad tracks in Tumwater saw Buddy and read the message. It read, “Send help. No joke. Cannot walk,’’ and “Medicine not working. Need doctor.’’

Cops found the guy and got him to a hospital.

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This legislation may sail right through in Maryland.

Lawmakers are moving to pass a bill that would close a legal loophole that in 2010 exempted sailboat operators from boating-while-intoxicated laws.

The state Senate voted in favor of the bill, and now it’s floating downstream to the House of Delegates.

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Albuquerque, NM, cops are trying to flush out brazen bathroom bandits who enter Albuquerque restrooms and filch auto-flush sensor mechanisms.

The pilferers pose as plumbers, zero in on Flush-O-Matics and sell them for $30 each on the black market.

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Someone smelled a rat — and it turned out that a rodent-loving Wisconsin woman had more than 300 in her trailer home.

Health officials said the woman began going into pet stores and buying domesticated rats, which wound up mating with wild rodents and quickly overrunning the home.

The plan is for an exterminator to scurry in and capture the rats alive and then get the trailer razed.

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We’ve heard of butt-dialing but this is ridiculous.

A 58-year-old Sri Lankan convict hid his forbidden cellphone between his rear-end cheeks when guards came by.

And then . . . you guessed it . . . the phone rang.

Guards confiscated the cellphone, even though they really, really didn’t want to.