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Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

It’s one for the hiss-tory books.

The largest Burmese Python ever captured in the US was bagged by a team of Florida biologists, who said Thursday the invasive serpent was nearly 18 feet long and weighed 215 pounds.

His fast food was extra “speedy.”

A Carl’s Jr. worker in Skiatook, Okla., was busted on drug charges after a customer found a bag of meth in his order, according to police.

The diner was about to chow down, when he spotted a 4-gram stash of speed next to his grub, leading to the arrest of employee Bryan Francis.

“If you are the person that was [supposed] to receive this order, it is waiting for you at the Skiatook Police Department. Just swing on by!” the cops later wrote on social media.

This vandal is nuts. A single squirrel in North Carolina caused a power outage that left more than 3,000 people in the dark.

The tree-hopping troublemak­er burrowed into wiring near Asheville, knocking out electricit­y to hundreds of homes, businesses and government buildings Wednesday morning, according to Duke Energy.

A woman busted for strutting half-naked outside a Pennsylvan­ia town hall claimed snakes had eaten her pants, police said.

Gloria Harpel, 35, was allegedly wearing only a top while “sweating profusely” with “constricte­d pupils” near Lansdale Borough Hall, police said.

She was charged with indecent exposure.

Alexa, channel granny! Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa, will soon be able to speak in any chosen voice by mimicking a recording, the company said Thursday.

The firm previewed the new feature by playing a clip of a boy asking Alexa to read “The Wizard of Oz” in his grandma’s voice at a conference Wednesday.

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