THE NY POST'S WEIRD BUT TRUE

Although I tend to lean more to the left regarding politics and issues in general, I find The New York Post an enjoyable read. Sure, the Post is owned by the same corporate empire that runs The National Enquirer and sure, the Post is shamelessly in-your-face Republican, but it's the little staples in the newspaper's pages that keeps me giggling when I'm uncomfortably sardined in the New York City Subway system. Weird But True is sometimes astonishing and really difficult to believe due to it's odd stories and mildly retarded people who actually keep this section fed with new entries daily. Here goes:

• A brazen burglar who busted into a Florida couple's home made off with an urn containing the ashes of the couple's 4-year-old son. The parents, Eve and Steven Greene, say they don't care about anything else the thief took, and beseech him to return their son's remains. "Just drop it off somewhere with a note on it," Steven Greene said. "And that'll be that."
• Don't mess with moles. A high-voltage cable that a retired German man had set up to zap moles digging up his yard wound up killing him instead. There was enough voltage in the set-up to run a cement mixer or heavy-duty power saw, police said. "The moles survived," said Stralsund police spokesman Uwe Werner. "It was, in any event, an unorthodox method to try to get rid of moles."
• A 21-year-old man who planned a monthlong visit with his girlfriend in Sydney, Australia, ended up 8,100 miles off course in tiny Sidney, Montana. Seems Tobi Gutt typed in an "i" instead of a "y" when he listed his destination on a flight-booking Web site. Dressed for the Australian summer, he arrived in chilly Montana in a T-shirt and shorts. He spent three days in the Billings airport before his parents sent him money for a ticket to Australia.
• Doctors at a hosptal in Ireland transplanted some organs -- into a corpse. British tourist Louis Selo, 55, died of a heart attack in Dublin on Aug. 2 as he and his family were riding a taxi. Doctors performed two autopsies: the first at Dublin's Beaumont Hospital, the second at an English hospital. There, the pathologist discovered that someone else's heart and lungs had been stitched inside Selo's corpse.