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Weird BUT true

- Natalie Musumeci, Wires

Terrifying footage captured the moment doctors in Russia extricated a 4-foot snake from a woman’s throat after it reportedly slithered into her mouth while she slept outdoors in her yard.

“Let’s see what this is,” a man is heard saying as a clearly horrified medical worker recoils in horror, while the creature emerges and is placed in a basin.

A New Jersey man allegedly pulled out a speargun and pointed it at people he was arguing with — over a parking space.

Bradley Rodriguez, 37, was busted after he took the weapon from his trunk, loaded it and “pointed it in a threatenin­g manner” in Seaside Park, police said.

Rodriguez was charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.

A black bear was caught on video in Canada tapping a runner with its paw on a popular trail.

The incident happened Saturday at the 1.3-mile Coquitlam Crunch in Coquitlam, British Columbia.

Sam Abdullah, who recorded the incident, said the woman “was in shock and she just froze there” when the bear appeared.

After the bear gave her leg a gentle tap, it backed off and the woman jogged away.

A woman spent 24 hours swimming in Lake Michigan to raise money for an Illinois diabetes charity.

Marian Cardwell, who swam across the English Channel in 2012, swam nonstop along the Wilmette, Ill. coastline for 24 hours straight and raised more than $10,000 for the Chicago Diabetes Project.

A man broke the record for growing the United Kingdom’s biggest tomato — thanks to a pair of sheer tights.

Douglas Smith, 42, spent more than two months carefully growing the tomato, which weighed 6.6 pounds.

While growing the fruit, Smith suspended it by using the tights so that it would not fall off its stem.

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