WEIRD BUT TRUE
Joe Schreiber isn’t mayor anymore, but he wants to wear the shirt.
Problem is, city commissioners in Tamarac, Fla., have agreed to pass a resolution prohibiting former elected officials from using the city seal without permission.
Vice Mayor Ed Portner threatened to have Schreiber, 83, removed from a city meeting for wearing his red polo shirt with the word “mayor” and the city seal on it.
A foster mother in Berlin was ordered to remove a marijuana crop her teenage son had been growing in a garden where six small children under her care have been playing.
The woman, identified only as Silke B., was told to get rid of the stash that belonged to her son Sven, according to a newspaper that printed pictures of the plants next to a small pool full of children.
A putty knife accidentally released in space by British astronaut Piers Sellers is now being tracked by NASA.
The spatula drifted out of Sellers’ tool kit as he did repairs to the space shuttle and is being watched by military radar at 20 sites worldwide as it hurtles at 25 times the speed of sound toward Earth, orbiting the planet every 90 minutes.
A British “Star Trek” fan has boldly gone where no man has gone before and created a giant maize maze dedicated to the program.
Trekkie Tom Pearcy used satellite technology to help him cut the maze in the cornfield at his farm near York to celebrate 40 years since the show’s first episode.
The maze, whose design includes images of Mr. Spock and the USS Enterprise, used 1.5 million cornstalks and claims to be the biggest of its kind in the world.
It was an illegal demolition derby – with bulldozers.
Police in Athens, Ala., busted James Morris and Brandon Langford after citizens complained about loud noises in the woods.
Officers say the pair had stolen heavy construction equipment for a kind of junkyard war – the suspects were crashing forklifts, backhoes and bulldozers into each other.

