From news from a true bucket list destination to an unfortunate trip to the loo in Gettysburg, Pa., and a famous fish story to the perils of social media, here’s a brief collection of weirdness and oddball news from around the world in the past week:

BUCKET LIST DESTINATION
The southeast Kentucky city of Corbin has unveiled a statue honouring one of its most famous figures — Colonel Sanders. The image of the iconic businessman – founder and symbol of the fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken – will stand outside the city’s tourism office to “attract tourists off of the interstate” and “bring people inside the welcome centre to learn a little bit more about Corbin,” according to Maggy Kriebel, the executive director of the city’s tourism commission.

The pine statue, which stands beside three carved chickens, was chiseled with a chainsaw over more than 40 hours by artist duo Jerry and Kim Eaton, with the latter exclaiming, “It was kind of scary. You can carve anybody’s face but when you carve someone that everybody recognizes… There was a lot of prayers. We prayed a lot.”

Sanders had roots in Corbin, opening up Harland Sanders Café in the city in 1940 and developing what would go on to be the secret KFC recipe at the roadside restaurant, according to Kentucky’s tourism agency. The restaurant was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

VISIT TO LOO WAS A BIG TO-DO
Authorities say a man was rescued after a tree that fell during high winds trapped him inside a portable toilet at Gettysburg National Military Park in south-central Pennsylvania. The man was alert and talking to EMS as he was loaded into an ambulance to be taken to Gettysburg Hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening.

MISSING THE POINT
Police are still looking for trespassers who stole two “No Trespassing” signs from the Pembroke and Area Airport in eastern Ontario. The signs were swiped in mid-April and there are no suspects. The signs were posted to deter the activity.

IT DIDN’T WORK!A US-based YouTuber and a Russian influencer were ordered off Indonesia’s resort island of Bali after recording themselves defying mandatory mask-wearing with some imaginative makeup. Clips of the video created by Josh Paler Lin and Leia Se and posted two weeks ago show the two duping supermarket guards with a painted surgical mask after they were refused entry because Se was unmasked.

“Did you notice like no one’s actually looking at you?” Lin exclaimed. “I can’t believe it worked!” he said in the video that appears to have been taken down from his social media accounts but has since been reposted elsewhere. Lin is a Taiwanese passport holder whose YouTube channel specializes in prank videos and is followed by 3.4 million fans. Se has over 25,000 Instagram followers.

UNCHECKED LUGGAGE
A 9-year-old boy who found his way onto the conveyor belt baggage handling system at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was not injured. The boy went missing as a group of about 20 people were checking their bags for a trip they were taking together and didn’t realize he had disappeared in the confusion.

Police found the boy in under five minutes, but authorities say the incident will likely lead to a review of baggage system security safeguards to see if more needs to be done to prevent it from happening again.

SOMETHING’S FISHY
A 108.8-kg sturgeon that could be more than 100 years old was caught in the Detroit River by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The “real life river monster” was nearly 2.1 metres long, the agency said, adding “Based on its girth and size, it is assumed to be a female and that she has been roaming our waters over 100 years.” She was quickly released back into the river after being weighed and measured.

BITE ME
Genetically modified mosquitoes are being released in the Florida Keys in an effort to combat persistent insect-borne diseases such as Dengue fever and the Zika virus. Non-biting male mosquitoes are expected to mate with the local biting female mosquitoes, whose female offspring will not be able to survive, thereby reducing the population and helping control the diseases.

IF THE SHOES FIT
A Georgia woman was caught trying to smuggle $40,000 worth of cocaine in multiple pairs of shoes through the Atlanta airport, but was thwarted by customs officers who discovered a powdery white substance concealed in the bottoms of seven pairs of footwear. The 21-year-old woman was returning from a trip to Jamaica and was found to be trying to conceal of 1.3 kg of cocaine.