Weird BUT true

They went from ranking as privates — to drawing them.

Two Marine Corps pilots were yanked from their aviation duties for allegedly making a penis-shaped flight pattern in the sky above Palm Springs, Calif.

They face punishment over the airborne images.

It was a bear-knuckle brawl.

A tough-as-nails elderly North Carolinian fought off a mama bear by punching her repeatedly in the nose.

Sonny Pumphrey, 78, was blowing leaves in the driveway of his Waynesville home when the animal charged him with her cubs.

He hit her several times — but the bear struck back, chomping down on his hip before bolting. He was treated for cuts and bruises.

Total wing nuts. Vegan extremists unleashed a slew of death threats against a small British farm because it offered a “name-your-own Christmas Turkey” deal.

Greendale Farm in Devon was flooded with threatening phone calls over a program that lets customers pick, name and feed their oven-destined gobblers.

Behold the curse of the Bambino — in reverse.

A Red Sox fan won a $100,000 lottery by picking the jersey numbers of his favorite players.

Jim Aylward Jr., an 84year-old great-grandfather from Templeton, Mass., hit the jackpot in the Mass Cash drawing with 11-16-1922-25.

The numbers were a nod to third baseman Rafael Devers, outfielders Andrew Benintendi and Jackie Bradley Jr., pitcher Rick Porcello and first baseman Steve Pearce.

Paging Seymour Butts . . . A Florida man was tossed in jail for giving cops a prank fake name — “Ben Dover.”

When Andrew Leighton, 22, was asked by a cop to leave a closed park in Palm Harbor, he allegedly ran.

He was charged with obstruction for claiming to be Mr. Dover.