Weird But True

Weird but true

This is a buzz killer.

A Florida man thought it was his lucky day when he spotted four 15-pound bundles of pot that had washed ashore near Ft. Lauderdale.

The 48-year-old “wacky tobacky” lover reportedly grabbed one of the bundles and started walking away — never noticing that cops had arrived at the scene, where they busted him.

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Who needs pizza and a beer.

A Boston pizzeria’s menu includes pies soaked in enough alcohol to give diners a buzz.

The pies at Salvatore’s are sold only to customers of drinking age.

And no well-done pies — the booze would evaporate.

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We’re feeling crabby, too, about the coming end of warm weather.

A Maryland blue crab named Baltimore Bill, autumn’s answer to famed groundhogs Punxsutawney Phil and Staten Island Chuck, is predicting that we’re likely to see an early winter this year.

With city public-relations people heralding his every move, Bill scampered down a forked plank and turned right into the Inner Harbor, signifying an early end to fall, the imaginative publicity mavens declared.

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Easy come, easy go.

A woman who bought a painting for $7 at a flea market, only to learn it was an authentic Renoir worth $100,000, got a second shock — the artwork had been stolen 61 years ago and the rightful owner wants it back.

The painting was taken from the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1951.

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You know you’ve imbibed too much when you pass out in Norway and wake up in Sweden.

That’s what happened to a Oslo party animal in the back seat of his car sleeping off a night of revelry.

Two female thieves drove him to Gothenburg, Sweden and kicked him out.

“I was bloody lucky,” he said. Not to mention bloody drunk.