Weird but true
This is one coldblooded criminal.
Cops in coastal Camden, Maine, caught their most wanted fugitive when they were able to track down a 2-foot-long lizard that went on the lam in the coastal town.
The reptile, identified as a South American tegu, was spotted wandering around by a resident, and coaxed into a dog crate.
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An upstate New York man got busted for DWI — even though he was asleep.
Cops said they busted the man when he slipped into dreamland while in the drive-through lane of a McDonalds in Newstead.
He never got to buy or enjoy a Big Mac. He was instead woken up by cops and failed a Breathalyzer.
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Just because a bar is named Cowboys doesn’t mean you can act out.
Cops say a drunken man rode a horse into the western-themed Louisiana saloon and acted like a movie villain, lassoing a patron and dragging him through the parking lot.
The 26-year-old alleged desperado was soon arrested at his home . . . actually, his mom’s home, where the mama’s boy has a room.
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China has finally taken fake knock-offs to the ultimate extreme.
A zoo in the city of Luohe has come under fire after charging patrons to see a “lion” that turned out to be a dog in a disguise.
The canine was painted tan like a lion and given a fake mane. Patrons became suspicious, however, after the “lion” started barking.
The zoo was also accused of trying to pass off a disguised fox as a snow leopard.
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Residents of one northern Thailand village take their privacy seriously.
They detained the driver of a Google Street View car, which was taking pictures for the Web-site behemoth.
They made him swear on a statue of Buddha that he wasn’t spying for the developers of an unpopular dam project, then let him flee.

