ODDS AND ENDS: Weed scattered on highway on 4/20 and other offbeat offerings

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Some marijuana fans had a really bad 4/20.

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The day on which weed enthusiasts mark cannabis consumption at 4:20 pm went awry for two men who were involved in a crash in Missouri.

Troopers found 226 kilograms of packaged marijuana scattered on a road when they responded to a crash on April 20.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the accident happened on I-70 in Callaway County.

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Luckily nobody was injured, but two men were arrested and charged with felony first-degree drug trafficking.

“You don’t see this every day, but it’s 4/20…,” Highway Patrol tweeted.

A British Columbia woman shot video of two black bears on her trampoline. YouTube/Rose Waldron

BOUNCING BC BLACK BEARS

We’ve heard about bears getting into food and rubbish, but who knew they also like bouncing on trampolines?

A British Columbia woman found that out when she spotted a couple of black bears in her backyard.

Rose Waldron, of Coquitlam, was stunned to see the bears wrestling out back on the trampoline.

Her video shows the bears having some fun.

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“So much for that trampoline,” Waldron says in the video.

Her husband, Doug Waldron, said the bears broke the trampoline’s support rods.

“It’s good enough for somebody [weighing] 150 pounds or less, I’m sure,” Waldron told CBCNews. “But having 800 pounds of bear on your trampoline didn’t help things.”

CARJACKER CRASHES CAR AND DIES IN SAN ANTONIO

An elderly woman survived a carjacking last week, but her assailant wasn’t so lucky.

Shirlene Hernandez, 72, was on her way to a gas station Tuesday, for her daily Diet Coke.

But on the way into the station, a man grabbed her and hit her repeatedly in the face and took her car keys.

Though Hernandez said three men tried to take down the attacker, he got away with the car.

However, police found the man dead inside the wrecked car on the interstate not long after.

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“There’s a lot of people who would say what goes around, comes around — karma. I did not think that; the only thing I got (was) really sad because he had died,” Hernandez said, according to reports. “Now granted, he had hurt me, but the Lord saw fit to take him out of his misery from him.”

Hernandez did not have any significant injuries, but doesn’t have her car anymore and needs it to work.

San Antonio residents created to GoFundMe page to help Hernandez buy a replacement vehicle. The page had aimed to raise $5,000 (US), but had earned over $30,000 by Saturday night.

ROOSTER TAKES UP RESIDENCE AT POPEYES IN LOUISIANA

A chicken has come home to roast. Or something like that.

A stray rooster in Slidell, La., started hanging out by a Popeyes restaurant. Staffers there have named it Rocco and built him a coop beside the drive-through, according to 4WWL.

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Popeyes General Manager Muhassin Shepherd said the rooster showed up the day after Hurricane Ida and never left. Shepherd said nobody could figure out where the bird came from.

Rocco has become a bit of a tourist attraction, and business is up at the restaurant.

“We’ve been actually increasing sales and business so, you know, meeting a lot of new friends just to come in and see Rocco,” Shepherd said.

POLISH GAMER SETS RECORD WITH SIMULATIONS

A hardcore Polish gamer has broken a Guinness World Record by playing the Football Manager soccer video game through 416 seasons and 134 days in a single game.

Guinness World Records said Pawel Sicinski broke the world record for longest game of Football Manager when he played for more than 400 years of in-game time, ending with a soccer match that took place on May 18, 2434.

“What an achievement from Pawel,” the official Football Manager account wrote on Twitter. “Taking the phrase ‘one more game’ to a whole new level.”