New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, with Post Wire Services

A text message sent to the wrong number led to a Pennsylvan­ia couple scoring free Stanley Cup tickets.

Amy Santora, a Penguins fan from Pittsburgh, got a message from an unknown number offering her free tickets.

Thrilled, she called it back — but the man on the other line explained it was an accident. When the friend he had meant to text turned the tickets down, he gave them to Santora and her husband instead.

Rush hour bites for a Washington state man — who accidental­ly swallowed his false teeth while driving and crashed.

The motorist lost control of his van and slammed into two parked cars. He suffered minor injuries.

A Florida man sang songs from ’80s band Journey as doctors removed a fistsized tumor from his brain, according to a report.

“Don’t stop be-liev-ing!” Taylor Hartsfield crooned to surgeons at University of Miami Hospital.

Doctors had instructed Hartsfield — who was awake for the whole hourslong surgery — to talk and sing to make sure they didn’t damage his brain.

Canadian environmen­tal scientists got burned by a pizza oven — set up next to an air-quality testing site.

Researcher­s were surprised to learn Montreal’s air had become so badly polluted, officials said.

But they soon realized the results were linked to smoke from a pizzeria’s woodburnin­g oven, set up just yards from the research site.

A pet parrot popped Prozac to battle “depression” — and her British owner claims it actually helped.

Things got so dark for Roxxi, the 10-year-old African Grey, she began pulling out her own feathers.

Her owner, Margy Newton, fed her Prozac to keep the chemicals in her bird brain balanced. Roxxi is now back to her spunky old self, Newton said.

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