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- Ben Kesslen, Wires

A selfish shellfish! Australian golfers on Christmas were robbed by a giant crab on Christmas Island.

The massive crustacean clawed up one golfer’s bag and refused to let go, according to a video posted on social media. The golfer eventually relented, and the crab ran off with part of a club that it had cut off with its claws.

Pakistan’s human rights minister was ready to send a bill protecting missing persons to the Senate when all of a sudden, the proposed law disappeare­d.

The politician said officials couldn’t find the bill, according to local reports, which obviously was delaying its passing.

Did ewe get your shot? Germany is so desperate to get its population vaccinated that it’s forcing its sheep and goats to spread the word.

Seven hundred livestock were coaxed with bread to form a 330-foot syringe shape. The shepherd responsibl­e spent days practicing with the animals, hoping his wooly stunt might convince some animal-loving vaccine skeptics.

Caught white-handed! A mayor in Niger is in jail after police discovered 199 bricks of cocaine in his truck, worth more than $8.5 million.

The suspected drug-smuggling politician must have thought he was above the law: He was arrested after driving his vehicle through a police checkpoint, according to Reuters.

China needs to leash its pet funeral industry, according to a South China Morning Post report.

Pet funerals have become so popular in the country that undertaker­s can’t keep up, and a lack of regulation in the business is allowing shady funeral directors to cash in on people’s departed pups.

Good quality pet funerals can cost several thousand Chinese yuan, and some funeral directors said customers often choose to bury their pet themselves after finding out how expensive an official burial might be.

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