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Weird but true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

A Montana woman’s 911 call turned out to be a dopey move.

Margery Ann Dayrider, 33, of Great Falls, called to report ingesting what she feared might be some “bad meth,” police said.

Cops arriving at Dayrider’s home busted her for possession. They seized her drugs that lab tests later confirmed were, in fact, methamphet­amine, authoritie­s said.

Snob-a-saurus! The spiky armor on a recently discovered dinosaur fossil may have been a status symbol to attract elite mates — and not just protection against hungry predators, says new research.

Canadian scientist Caleb Brown compares the markings on the dinosaur that lived 110 million years ago to modern-day horns and antlers.

An Indian chef was so fuming mad about his throat-cancer diagnosis, he fatally shot the friend who introduced him to cigarettes, police said.

Mustakeem Ahmad, 25, allegedly gunned down his former co-worker at a restaurant in Uttam Nagar, after blaming the pal for getting him hooked on tobacco and weed, cops said.

A store clerk’s flub led a Maryland man to win a $50,000 Powerball jackpot.

The unnamed 27-year-old winner, from Odenton, said he asked the clerk at his local Weis Markets for one Mega Millions ticket and one Powerball ticket.

Instead, the clerk gave him two of each, including the second Powerball ticket — that was the big winner.

He’s headed to the great game show in the sky.

J.J., the oldest male orangutan in captivity in North America, whose favorite hobby was watching the “The Price is Right,” died at the Toledo Zoo after a battle with heart disease. He was 45.

J.J. was a huge Bob Barker fan, said his longtime keeper, Suzanne Husband.

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