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Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

A man in Kosovo swallowed a clunky, early-2000s Nokia cellphone and walked around with it in his stomach for days before doctors removed it in a lifesaving operation.

The 33-year-old finally got an X-ray at a hospital in Pristina after the gadget, which sat in his gut for four days, began causing intense pain. A medical team removed the phone in pieces using an endoscope.

Monkey see, monkey steal. Dozens of long-tailed macaques who rely on tourists to feed them in Bali have begun raiding villagers’ homes for snacks after travel plans thwarted by COVID-19 left them hungry.

The pesky primates, who live in a forest in Sangeh, have been snatching food off locals’ porches in recent weeks, sparking fears that they’ll become more aggressive.

A Tennessean chopped off his penis and threw it out the window of his car during a totally nuts police chase.

He was blocking traffic on a highway in Dowelltown when officers confronted him and he allegedly sped off, ditching his privates along the road, police said.

He later told cops voices told him to cut off his junk to “save the world.”

Son of a gun lover. A dad-to-be fired celebrator­y gunshots into the air at a gender-reveal party after learning he’s having a boy — triggering a lockdown at two Tennessee schools.

School officials at John Pittard Elementary and Oakland Middle school in Murfreesbo­ro thought there was an active shooter when a neighbor called 911 to report the gunfire along with a scream from the mom.

A pod of dolphins alerted a rescue crew to a swimmer stranded for 12 hours off the coast of Ireland.

Volunteers for the Royal National Lifeboat Institutio­n spotted the majestic mammals surroundin­g the 30somethin­g suffering from hypothermi­a on Aug. 22.

He was rushed to a hospital and is expected to recover.

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