Life's Tough for Anyone Who Has to Report Stories Like These

A Sioux City, Iowa, man walked out of his house to find a dead deer dressed in a clown suit and wig lying on his front porch.

Cops figured it was part of a Halloween prank, but insisted it was neither funny or acceptable.

Animal-control officers have disposed of the deer. Police said they were not opening an investigation.

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The cabinet ministers of the Maldives are taking diving lessons so they'll be able to convene government meetings when their low-lying island-chain nation in the Indian Ocean sinks underwater.

Studies have shown that if the seas rise just seven inches, 80 percent of the country would disappear.

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Gaza City's zoo is so poor that it had to paint two donkeys with stripes because it couldn't afford to smuggle a zebra past an Israeli blockade.

It may fool kids from a distance, but it does little to soothe them as they live under the blockade, put in place because of the Hamas-led government's pro-terror stance.

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A Detroit man got two years in prison for stealing a woman's car after skipping out on the check -- on their first date.

Terrence McCoy dined with his date, then told her he left his wallet in her car. She gave him the keys -- and he drove off.

From NY Post's daily "Weird But True" column