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Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

This takes the cake. A Louisiana woman who went berserk on a cop apologized with a cake that read, “Sorry I tried to bite you.”

Celina Dally said she tried to chomp down on the officer after getting smashed at a wine tasting at McNeese State University.

She spent the night in jail and later felt guilty, so she brought the cake into the Lake Charles police station.

Germany is abuzz over a sex-toy heist that’s believed to be the largest in history.

Bandits took $57,000 in kinky goodies from a Berlin sex-trade show.

Fun Toys London — which set up a booth at the Venus Berlin 2017 — said workers realized they’d gotten the shaft when they saw nine boxes of the erotic toys gone.

Elementary, my dear Watson.

A British con man was easily foiled when he used the name of a Sherlock Holmes character — raising the suspicion of one victim.

Aaron Cowan, 24, of Canterbury, allegedly tried to impersonat­e a police officer with the fake name Inspector Greg Lestrade, a character from the series who often asks Holmes for help.

Cowan is accused of pulling a scam in which he claimed he needed to seize property from businesses as “evidence.”

“Hears” a resourcefu­l man. A blind Chinese mechanic taught himself to fix motorcycle engines by touching parts and listening to the engines’ sounds, and has been running his successful business for 30 years.

Longtime customers of Zhu Shuyou, of Yibin, said they had no idea that he was sight-impaired.

Who’s a cynical boy! Dogs make adorable facial expression­s only when they know someone is watching, a new British study claims.

Pooches know to switch on the puppy eyes in order to get attention when humans are around, according to researcher­s at the University of Portsmouth’s Dog Cognition Center.

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