New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

A chubby thief tried to swipe lingerie from a Victoria’s Secret in Florida, and when cops apprehende­d him, he bit an officer’s thumb, police said.

As three cops struggled to cuff Algernon Baker, who was suspected of shopliftin­g $760 worth of ladies’ undies, he chomped down in a futile bid to flee.

The Oxford Dictionary will add 300 new words, including “yas,” “clicktivis­m” and a new definition of “jelly,” to its new edition.

Oxford defines “yas” as expressing great pleasure or excitement, “clicktivis­m” as Internet activism and “jelly” as millennial-speak for jealous, obvi.

“Cat lady,” “untag” and “drunk text” also made it. Talk about a sound sleeper! A park-goer in Aldershoot, England, called cops to report a body on the grass — but responding officers found a snoozing but live loiterer.

The female park patron contacted police when the adult napper didn’t respond to nudging and then panicked shouting.

But when cops arrived, the snoozer awoke, brushed himself off and ambled away.

A woman posed as a famous psychic to rake in cash on social media but wealth wasn’t in her future, law enforcemen­t said.

Gemma Badley, 29, was busted for setting up a Facebook account claiming she was Sally Morgan, a psychic TV personalit­y in England, and gave “fake” readings via the Web for $25 a pop, cops said. A judge hit her with 3¹/2 months behind bars.

Here’s a job we’d like to bag: profession­al chip eater.

A British food firm is hiring a “super tester’ at $10.50 an hour to munch salty snacks in taste tests.

Walkers, owned by Pepsi UK, is hunting for a nonsmoker with no food allergies to eat “a wide variety of foods and beverages,” including Doritos.

No word on if the job perks include medical tests for high blood pressure.

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