What an extraordinary week it’s been for strange news on the cops beat ’round my way. Consider the following five stories from Paul Quinlan, The Post’s new St. Lucie County cops reporter, and Allyson Bird, who just left the same job and now works in the north Palm Beach County office.

(June 21) Man with marijuana tucked behind ear asks PSL cop for directions

A 20-year-old ended up in jail Wednesday when the police officer whom he asked for directions noticed a marijuana “blunt” tucked behind his ear, police say.

(June 22) Jupiter police: Suicidal man misses, shoots rifle into neighbor’s house

… But minutes before the clock struck 12 on Thursday, he tried to kill himself and instead fired a rifle round out his window and into a neighbor’s home, officials said. The round shot into the wall at 6041 Loree St., past a child in the living room, through a kitchen cabinet and into the ceiling at about 11:15 p.m., according to police. No one was injured.

(June 26) Bambi-monium ensues as owner, animal caregiver brawl over fawn

What began as an effort to resuscitate a starving baby deer Sunday turned into a fight between owner and caregiver, who bit the owner after he snatched his deer off the examining-room table. Neither faces charges in the incident. The deer died after the scuffle.

(June 26) Jupiter man arrested in impaling of 18-year-old with rod

A Jupiter Farms youth impaled through his head with a 5-foot metal rod during a scuffle and chase Saturday night had been threatened for months, his family said Monday.

(June 27) St. Lucie man awakes with gun wound; wife arrested

The headache that awoke Michael Moylan before dawn Tuesday turned out to be a gunshot wound, doctors later told the St. Lucie County man after his wife drove him to the hospital. … Although both husband and wife offered conflicting explanations throughout the day, April Moylan eventually told deputies she accidentally shot her husband, investigators say.