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Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

He’s in the doghouse now. A pooch inadverten­tly ran over his owner with an offroad vehicle in Alabama, officials said.

The victim parked his allterrain vehicle near a bakery in Loxley, then tied the dog’s leash to the handlebars. When the pup tried to run , it set the ATV into motion — running into the unidentifi­ed owner, who was left with minor injuries. What party poopers. New “smart” bathrooms in China are programed to alert others when a user takes too long in the loo.

The public toilets, which were unveiled in Shanghai this week, will tell workers when a user takes more than 15 minutes inside.

The robotic restrooms also control odor in the air and track the number of people who have used them. They crossed a line. Ohio officials tried to solve a land dispute by splitting a building in two.

Farmer Brett Galloway complained after Ruggles Township workers constructe­d a storage shed that encroached on his property.

In response, the township broke off a section of the large shed and built a fence in between each side. “It is pretty much the most ridiculous thing ever,” Galloway said. Leapin’ lizards! A reptile wrangler pulled a massive alligator from a pool in Florida with his bare hands.

The nearly 9-foot gator had been taking a dip in Parkland when the homeowner called trapper Paul Bedard.

Wild footage shows Bedard hopping in the water and ducttaping the critter’s mouth shut before dragging it off. Now he’s in hot water. A Pennsylvan­ia student hacked into his school’s computer system to cheat on a water gun competitio­n.

The teenager allegedly cracked the code of a portal where Downingtow­n Area School District students send each other private messages.

He wanted a “competitiv­e advantage” in a game where seniors shoot water guns at each other, officials said.

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