Andy Griffith is running for sheriff of Grant County, Wis.

No, not that Andy Griffith, who played Mayberry Sheriff Andy Taylor on TV in the 1960s.

We’re talking about Platteville record-shop owner William Fenrick, who legally changed his name to give his candidacy a boost.

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Talk about oddballs with too much time to spare.

A Michigan man has made a 70-foot-long rosary with bowling balls.

Ralph Kluk used 59 balls, 20 cans of pastel spray paint, 40 feet of black piping and a wooden cross in setting up the 700-pound rosary on the front lawn of his Napoleon Township home.

Oh, we almost forgot. He also used 9-inch metal stakes to keep the balls from rolling down the street.

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Recess is no longer a fun time for elementary-school kids in Attleboro, Mass.

Officials have banned tag, dodge ball, touch football and all unsupervised chase games during scheduled classroom breaks.

Recess is “a time when accidents can happen,” explained the school principal.

Uh, yeah, but isn’t it also supposed to be a time when fun can happen?

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Ouch!

A workman in Jennersdorf, Austria, slipped and accidentally fired his nail gun while working on a house – and ended up nailing his left testicle to the roof.

Emergency medics had to be called to extract the 4-inch nail and free him from the roof.

He was airlifted to a hospital for surgery, and is reportedly “recovering well.”

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When a gander named Hannibal became too aggressive to be kept with other birds at a farm in Cottbus, Germany, he was put into an enclosure with some donkeys.

That’s where Hannibal fell for a donkey named Heidi, and the two became inseparable – even eating and sleeping together.

Hannibal jealously attacks any male donkey that goes near his prima donkey. And Heidi ho-hums all other donkeys and follows in her silly goose’s steps all day long.