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Weird BUT true

- David K. Li, Wires

A suspected car thief was chased to the third floor of a building and dangled out the window, threatenin­g to commit suicide — until his cat came to the rescue, San Francisco police said.

During the harrowing standoff, a relative of the suspect brought his orange tabby to the scene. And the kitty’s presence calmed the suspect and allowed police to talk him down, cops said.

An SFPD spokesman tweeted, “Never underestim­ate the power of a owner’s love for their pet.”

After a Florida teen was sentenced to probation for auto theft, he left court with a stack of legal papers.

Those very same documents were later found by police in the front seat of a stolen car.

When St. Petersburg officers called the man to arrange for him to pick up the court papers, he showed up in — you guessed it — another stolen car, officials said. He has been busted in connection with both thefts.

A restaurant owner near Boston sure is steamed — and fried — about a rival who allegedly stole recipes.

The owner of Dumpling Daughter, in Weston, Mass., is suing a new eatery called Dumpling Girl, in Millbury.

Two of the three Girl owners used to work at Daughter, the lawsuit states.

A 650pound pig fell off a trailer in Longmont, Colo., and found a new home.

No one claimed the beast, which was probably headed for slaughter, so he’s headed for the Hog Heaven Farm sanctuary, where he’s expected to live out a long life of about 13 years.

The Yorkshire pig has been named Lucky.

A British man finally got Facebook to give him his account back after proving his apparently fake name — Something Long and Complicate­d — was, in fact, real.

The 30yearold Londoner actually had his name legally changed in 2007 to that odd moniker, from his completely uncomplica­ted birth name of William Wood.

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