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Weird BUT true

- Tamar Lapin, Wires

A woman in San Diego dreamed she ate her engagement ring — and woke up to find that she had.

Jenna Evans said she dreamed she and her fiance Bobby were facing “bad guys” on a train and she swallowed the rock to protect it.

“When I woke up and it was not on my hand, I knew exactly where it was,” Evans said. “It was in my stomach.”

Doctors were able to remove the jewelry and return it to her.

A Missouri woman says she needs three emotional support monkeys to live with her in her apartment — despite her neighbors’ concerns that the primates are dangerous.

Texanne McBride-Teahan, of Creve Coeur, is taking her battle to court, arguing the animals — which aren’t allowed in residentia­l areas — help her deal with her posttrauma­tic stress disorder.

Putting the squeeze on SpongeBob.

The Indonesian Broadcasti­ng Commission has deemed “The SpongeBob SquarePant­s Movie” too violent for TV.

The kids flick has been banned from being broadcast — for such savage acts as throwing a cake at someone’s face, a character getting hit with a wooden board and one dropping a bowling ball on another’s head.

This grandma is taking the law into her own hands.

Patti Baumgartne­r, of Polson, Mont., got so sick of cars zipping down her street that she took to sitting on the road with a white hair dryer — in the hopes motorists would think it was a speed gun.

State Highway Patrol troopers dubbed her an “Honorary Montana Trooper.”

Now she’s trying for a winning streak.

Lisa Lewis wants to become mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand — but first has to explain why she once ran naked onto the field at a 2006 rugby match.

In a radio interview, Lewis said, “I definitely wouldn’t do it again.”

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