Weird But True

WEIRD BUT TRUE

It’s a transatlantic booty call.

American heiress and fashion consultant Alexis Genevieve, 32, says she wants Italian reality-TV winner Claudio Paselli, 31, to come on over and make her a baby.

She has $350,000 waiting for the stud who won a “Perfect Bride” competition, but dumped the bride.

“I’m not interested in the money,” says Claudio. “If I accept, it’s just because she’s charming me.”

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‘Tis the season to give Ol’ St. Nick a beat-down.

A British theme-park Santa and three of his elves were assaulted by irate visitors to a lame Lapland show near Dorset.

Parents who waited up to four hours and paid about $40 per ticket for what they hoped would be a magical evening found a broken ice rink, huskies in a mud field and a cardboard Nativity scene.

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How do you tell these folks it’s not a miracle?

Villagers near Jinfeng, China, swear a recently uncovered rock formation is a huge flower, with petals and all.

The giant form appeared after heavy rains caused a mountain slide and flushed away the topsoil.

Geologists say those petals are 300-million-year old chert nodules.

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An Austrian thief lost a bout with his conscience and confessed that, yes, he was the man who stole a motorized bicycle 25 years ago.

To show his sincerity, the guy sent an anonymous letter to the cops with $1,769 in cash as compensation to the victim.

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A 16-year-old from Essex, England, has been raking in $45,000 a month buying and selling cellphones and other gadgets via the Internet.

When Gary Cooper is not in school, he has a four-person staff handling the business.