New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

It’s a jungle down there. A straphange­r was caught in wild video footage feeding her pet raccoon on a New York City subway train.

Brooke Hogan, an Australian model, was headed uptown on a 6 train when another straphange­r pulled out a plastic bowl.

Hogan shot video of the raccoon perched in a seat, clutching the bowl with both paws and chowing down. He’s the dummy. A Massachuse­tts driver was busted trying to slip into a carpool lane with a mannequin riding shotgun.

Todd Glidden, 44, of Reading, was hit with a ticket when a cop noticed his plastic companion, which he’d decked out in a hoodie and sunglasses.

A Missouri couple returned home to discover constructi­on workers had ripped the roof off their house by mistake.

A crew of hardhats got the wrong address for a project in St. Louis, tore off dozens of shingles — and bolted when they realized the screw-up, according to a report.

The company will fix the roof at no charge for Chris and Laura McInnis, who were about to sell the home.

A Florida man pretending to be a police officer was arrested when he tried to pull over a woman — who turned out to be a real cop.

Milton Morales-Perez, 46, allegedly rolled down the window of his Ford Mustang, flashed a fake silver badge and ordered Miami Officer Kenia Fallat to stop the car.

Fallat, who was driving an unmarked cop car, promptly charged him with impersonat­ing a police officer. This idea’s quacked. South Korean researcher­s want to replace car horns with the sound of ducks quacking.

Noise pollution researcher­s at Soongsil University in Seoul asked 100 participan­ts to rate honking sounds based on their attention-grabbing and calming qualities.

They found the quacking noise best alerts people to danger without creating stress.

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