Weird But True

Weird but true

Knock, knock. Who’s there? The cops!

A bawdy “knock, knock” joke got a Rhode Island man arrested after he illustrated the punch line by pulling down his pants and waving his privates around in a bar.

He’s been sentenced to a year’s probation.

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Three pilots died in a plane crash outside Jackson, Miss. — as they were heading to a conference on airplane safety.

The single-engine Piper PA-32 sputtered on takeoff as if it were out of fuel, witnesses said.

The plane’s owner skipped the conference to go deer hunting while his pals borrowed the aircraft.

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This mom is totally nuts.

An Ontario woman is demanding that officials in the town of Vaughan tear down all the oak trees surrounding her kid’s’ school because her son has a nut allergy and she fears he is in danger from the acorns littering the ground.

The town hasn’t decided what to do, but local squirrels may respond with a class-action suit if the woman’s oak-tree massacre comes to pass.

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This giraffe is head and shoulders above the rest.

A Scottish man has been hailed for performing numerous good deeds around the country — all while dressed up in a giraffe suit.

Armstrong Baillie, an unemployed man who is known as “The Good Giraffe,” has performed services such as cleaning beaches, working at animal shelters and handing out gift certificates to new mothers.

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The big bad wolf should stay away from this grandma’s house.

When Aishat Maksudova, 56, was attacked by a wild wolf in the the Caucasus, she turned the tables on the animal by fighting back and killing it with an ax after it had bitten her leg.

The woman has now become a local heroine in the wolf-plagued region.