New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, with Wire Services

Meet Robo Shrink. A tech firm wants neurotic folks across the globe to unload on robot therapists in online counseling sessions.

Woebot company chatbots are programmed to mimic human conversati­on, give advice and even companions­hip.

A Texas woman found a $1 million lottery ticket while cleaning out her husband’s backpack.

Rose Ibarra, of Avalon, took a trip with her constructi­on worker hubby to Virginia, where a friend gave him a Hot Millions Multiplier ticket, she said.

He scratched it off but figured the winning numbers were a prank, so he tossed the ticket in his bag — and forgot about it.

New Jersey cops made a nutty discovery while hunting for the vandals who destroyed a Christmas lights display: the culprit was a squirrel.

The naughty rodent gnawed through electrical wires at the Sea Girt attraction, forcing officials to replace them before the city’s annual tree lighting ceremony.

An Arizona preacher used his ministry’s phone number in ads to recruit prostitute­s, according to cops.

Walter Eugene Brazington Jr., 55, a minister for the All Nations Evangelist­ic Team, tried to lure ladies to a brothel in the town of Broken Arrow, police allege.

He’s accused of buying classified ads seeking “massage therapists.”

A petite Washington state nanny chased down and tackled a thief who tried to swipe a package of Christmas gifts from her porch.

Kate Anderson, who looks after a 1-year-old in Everett, spotted the Grinchy grabber running with the loot towards a getaway van — but it sped off without her.

The badass baby sitter caught up to the present pilferer, wrestled her to the ground and held her until cops arrived.

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