Carol Windham was mystified as to why her van suddenly zoomed forward when she pressed the brake and nearly caused a head-on collision, until she lifted the hood.

The Ardmore, Okla., motorist found 50 pecans on the engine from a nesting rat’s stash, and one had fallen in such a way as to make the throttle stick.

That night, she set a trap baited with peanut butter, and soon found a critter that “looked like a good-sized possum.”

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Speaking of strange driving takes, you could say 90-year-old Philip Dubay went on a booze cruise when he tried to park and hit the gas pedal instead of the brake.

No, Dubay, of Scarborough, Maine, wasn’t drunk – but he plowed into a liquor store, smashing into a wall lined with $20,000 worth of booze.

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An angry wild bull on the loose in southern Germany was brought under control – by love.

“When bulls break out, there’s no telling might happen. He was pretty worked up,” said one officer in the town of Hof.

As cops readied a tranquilizer gun, someone suggested luring the bull home with a cow on a tether.

“It worked. He calmed right down and trotted behind her back to the barn,” the officer said.

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A middle-aged Romeo has been banned from an Internet dating service for his “lack of commitment” – after officials discovered he bedded more than 100 women he met online.

Ex-miner Clive Worth, 55, of Llanelli, Wales, had 119 dates over five years through DatingDirect.com and admits sleeping with most of them.

“I’m gutted about being kicked out,” he said. “I’ve done nothing wrong . . . It’s just that I haven’t met the right woman yet.”

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Stressed-out Spaniards are paying $60 for two hours of therapy – not with a shrink, but for the chance to smash up cars, computers, TVs and cellphones while listening to heavy-metal rock tunes.

The clients enter the city junkyard in Soria and are given a sledgehammer to vent their frustrations.

One satisfied “patient” said, “I come after a bad day at work. I take a phone, put it on the ground and smash it to bits with a single thump.”