Weird But True

Weird but true

They have fur coats and live in a millionaire’s home, but they’re definitely not part of the 1 percent.

A pack of coyotes has moved into a foreclosed mansion in Clearwater, Fla.

And local residents are worried about property values — since their new neighbors are becoming less and less discreet.

They’re brazenly “coming out in broad daylight’’ now, complained Allie Lyon.

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This is no fish story.

Animal-rights activists want officials in Irvine, Calif., to install a memorial on a road where a truck crashed — while carrying fish to a facility where they’d be fattened up for the market.

“Although such signs are traditionally reserved for human fatalities, I hope you’ll make an exception,’’ Dana Kourda wrote to city officials on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

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We’ve heard of religious people speaking in tongues — but this is brand new.

A British man made a bet that he could lick every cathedral in the country in two years — and has so far hit 60 of the nation’s 64.

If Lawrence Edmonds loses, he has to run nude around York’s cathedral.

He said Litchfield Cathedral in the Midlands tasted best, but Perth’s, in Scotland, was “a little gritty.’’

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Just what the world needed — a combination soccer goalie and toilet.

The invention, the collaboration of a Japanese toilet manufacturer and a sports- lottery agency, is placed in the net.

If motion detectors determine the ball is on target, the toilet swivels, the lid opens and a small ball is fired out of the bowl.

It hits the soccer ball and throws it off target, just like a missile.

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Anybody can break a glass — this guy broke the glass-carrying record.

Philip Osenton, a British waiter, carried 51 glasses simultaneously using both hands. The old record was 39.