Weird BUT true

They torpedoed that idea. FedEx’s plan to install missile-defense technology on cargo planes was shot down by the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday.

In 2019, FedEx applied for approval for a laser-based system that could defend against heat-seeking missiles. Regulators are now laser-focused on further studies.

Some UK cops got stiffed. Cambridgeshire police got a tip from a caller who saw the feet of an apparent dead body poking out of a rolledup carpet.

Cops tracked down the vehicle but they found, instead of a corpse, a mannequin dressed as Prince Charming on its way to be used for a birthday party, Sky News said.

You say potato, they say maybe not.

What may be the world’s largest potato will undergo DNA testing to prove it is really a spud and not part of some deep-fried lie.

“Doug the Ugly Spud,” which weighs a reported 40 pounds, was pulled from a garden in Scotland last year but before Guinness World Records crowns a new king of taters it asked for the genetic testing, reports said.

It was a glitter attack! Two Florida women were arrested on burglary charges after they threw multiple containers of glitter at a man and broke a window in his apartment, according to The Smoking Gun.

It wasn’t clear if or how they knew the man, but cops later allegedly found glitter when they searched the women’s car.

It was a disturbing dispute. A 64-year-old South Korean man lit himself on fire after an agency refused to arrange a marriage for him, The Korea Herald reported.

The man doused himself with gasoline and set himself aflame after the agency said the man didn’t qualify for marriage to someone from another country because he had applied for a previous international marriage visa within the last five years.