Weird But True

Weird but true

This guy may have fumbled the ball.

California officials are looking into how a Justice Department helicopter got used to hover over a high school football game in El Dorado Hills.

An agent allegedly dropped a football from the chopper to his football-player son on the field, KCRA-TV reported.

The stunt, which was caught on video, cost taxpayers up to $1,300.

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Hope this wing-eating champ doesn’t wing it in court.

A New Jersey man known as “El Wingador’’ has been indicted on cocaine-distribution charges.

William Simmons, a five-time wing-eating champion, last triumphed in Philadelphia’s Wing Bowl in 2005 when he chomped 162 chicken wings.

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A Florida motorist who fell asleep at the wheel got a rude awakening.

Laura Cohen, 23, was driving north toward the I-95 ramp to Davie Boulevard in Broward.

A highway officer was in his parked car — its lights flashing — at the exit ramp as a warning to drivers that the road was closed due to construction.

You guessed it. She plowed into the back of his car, the Miami Herald reported cops as saying. Police said both had “very minor injuries.’’

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This Russian judge was caught napping.

He was fired after he sentenced a businessman to five years in prison for fraud — and the defendant’s lawyer posted videos showing the jurist getting some Zzz’s.

The defendant will get a new trial.

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There’s a big to-doo among diaper shoppers in southern Norway.

There’s a shortage because a supermarket price war has inspired entrepreneurial shoppers from nearby countries to flock there and stock up — for resale back home.