Weird but true
Here’s more proof that cruise vacations really “suck.”
Holland Cruise Lines is cashing in on the vampire craze by offering a week-long trip to Alaska for the undead and those who love them — complete with a vampire ball, and a costume contest hosted by the great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker, author of “Dracula.”
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What a s- – -t storm!
Officials are trying to determine what sent a septic-tanker truck careening through the wall of an upstate New York home and into the living room.
No one was hurt, but parts of its 300-gallon stinky load sprayed everywhere, making the home uninhabitable.
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A Minnesota fisherman got more than she was angling for when she caught a prosthetic limb.
Beth Krohn thought she’d caught a dead body in her local lake when she reeled in a leg.
It turned out to be an artificial leg that a swimmer lost three years ago.
Krohn reunited the leg with its owner by tracking it through the prosthetics company that manufactured it.
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It was panda-monium for early-morning commuters in Flagstaff, Ariz., when a prankster posted a street sign warning of a “Rogue Panda on Rampage.”
Red-faced transportation officials needed hours to erase the electronic message while drivers snarled traffic trying for a rare glimpse of a bamboo-loving, black-and-white bear-like critter.
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Another masked mammal wreaked havoc last week by climbing up a power pole and setting itself on fire.
A raccoon that touched an electric wire burst into flames, fell to the ground and set off a grass fire that torched 10 acres in Salt Lake City.

