New York Post

Weird true BUT

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

This weight-loss technique is shocking — a brain chip that zaps people when they think about overeating.

In the Stanford University clinical trial, six morbidly obese volunteers will have the device implanted for a year and half to help control binge eating.

The eurostimul­ation system gives users a mild electric shock when it detects patterns linked to “habitual” or “uncontroll­ed behavior.”

What the hail? Colorado was pelted with possibly record-breaking hailstones this week — some bigger than softballs.

The freak storm hammered areas near the eastern city of Bethune, with some of the ice spheres measuring 4.83 inches in diameter

The previous state record was 4.5 inches.

That’s one giant fish fry. Workers fixing a busted pipe in an Oklahoma creek were gobsmacked when a catfish the size of a small child swam up next to them.

City utility workers in El Reno spotted the 45pounder after they climbed into the waist-deep Fourmile Creek to fix a leak that had shut off water at a nearby nursing home.

William Baeriswyl and a co-worker caught the massive mudcat by hand, and plan to eat it with pals.

At least he’s self-aware. A man who used a stolen debit card to buy a cellphone, beer and cigarettes signed the receipt “Thief,” according to authoritie­s.

The unidentifi­ed suspect is accused of snatching a purse from a woman who gave him a ride in Butler, Pa. He then purchased a $200 Phone 6S and a case of brewskis, according to cops, who later arrested him.

They’re a perfect match! An adorable elderly couple has worn matching outfits every day of their nearly seven-decade marriage.

Francis and Rosemary Klontz — Sacramento residents about to celebrate their 68th anniversar­y — say twinning helps them stay in sync.

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