New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

It took guts to survive this fall!

A 500-pound Chinese man’s big belly kept him from accidental­ly plunging into a water well in Henan Province.

Instead, the 28-year-old got wedged into the hole up to his waist after falling through the well’s wooden cover, authoritie­s said.

Firefighte­rs tied a rope around his paunch and pulled him out.

Swat-TF?

A proposal for a new Missippi state flag, featuring a blood-sucking mosquito, accidental­ly made it to the finals on Monday.

The commission tasked with replacing the state’s Confederat­e battle emblem, widely called racist, whittled 3,000 design submission­s down to 147.

But the skeeter slipped through due to a typo submitted by a panel member.

A French perfume maker is on a mission to create a potion that smells “like the moon” — based on descriptio­ns from famous astronauts.

Michael Moisseeff, 66, who is also a geneticist, says the scent will have metallic notes of carbon sulphur, which is how Neil Armstrong described the space rock.

Her wash wasn’t set to a normal cycle.

A Florida woman was gobsmacked when she reached into her washing machine — and nearly grabbed a python.

Emily Visnic, of West Palm Beach, was so spooked when she felt the serpent slither next to her arm, she bolted from her apartment.

A maintenanc­e man later removed the snake.

Now that’s an Oldsmobile.

A 88-year-old Spanish man drove his mobility scooter on a busy Spanish motorway, causing a huge traffic jam.

The fearless oldster was caught on camera slowly rolling down the fast lane with no lights on, causing a line of cars to form behind him near the Julio Luengo tunnel in Gran Canaria.

Cops escorted him safely out of the tunnel.

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