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Upstate anglers have been casting their lines into Iroquois Lake in Schenectady in hopes of catching an elusive alligator gar after the town’s mayor placed a $100 bounty on the predatory fish’s head.

The creature has been gobbling up the pond’s fish population in recent weeks — and things got so bad that Mayor Gary McCarthy offered the reward.

A man playing Pokémon GO was arrested outside a Texas courthouse after he got into a fight with a man who didn’t agree on his choice of creatures.

Police said John Rodriguez was arrested Monday morning for being drunk in public following the dispute in Sherman.

A British dad was so fed up with his kid’s school, and the fact that they fined him $80 for taking the child on a vacation and making him miss class, that he paid the penalty entirely in small change.

There were so many coins he had to ask a friend to help him carry the bags of 1pence and 2-pence pieces into his local council office in Telford, England — where he dumped them out onto a desk.

Swedish scientists, excavating a shipwreck in the waters off the Baltic Sea island of Öland, recently stumbled upon 14 gold coins, a diamond ring — and a black tin jar chock full of 340-year-old cheese.

“It looks a bit like some kind of granular Roquefort,” explained researcher Lars Einarsson, of the Kalmar County Museum.

A South Korean man celebrating his 40th wedding anniversary went berserk on a plane leaving Hawaii — threatening to kill crew members and violently shoving his wife — after the flight attendants told him he couldn’t do yoga inside the cabin.

Hyongtae Pae must now cough up $44,235 following the midair tantrum, which forced the pilot to return to Honolulu.