New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie Musumeci, Wires

“Jaws” took a bite out of a bitten but still smitten Australian filmmaker making a shark documentar­y.

Anika Craney, 29, was gnawed on the lower left leg by the predator while swimming off Fitzroy Island near Cairns, Queensland.

As she was wheeled into Cairns Hospital, she shouted to reporters, “I still love sharks!”

A black bear went on a hunt for some leftover pizza in a Canadian home.

The bruin can be seen in security footage pushing open an unlocked door to Sean Atkinson’s Ontario house and then rummaging through pizza boxes on the floor. The animal departed after it found no grub inside.

Here’s a case of life imitating comedy.

A Sydney, Australia, husband who recently had bought two scratch-off lottery tickets told officials he “scratched the first one and I said to my wife that I had won the top prize, but I was kidding!

“And then she scratched the second one and told me

she had won the top prize,” he said. “Of course, I didn’t believe her but when she showed me the ticket, it was actually there!” The couple’s prize was about $7,000.

A feline fugitive has been captured in Japan after more than two weeks on the lam.

A 1-year-old serval cat, which is native to Africa and was being kept as an exotic pet in Shizuoka, escaped June 27 and was caught Monday moseying around the city’s heliport. It had wandered more than a half-mile from its owner’s home.

An Idaho serial recordbrea­ker is at it again.

David Rush, of Boise, who has broken more than 150 Guinness World Records, has set yet another by keeping three balloons in the air for one hour, 12 minutes and 50 seconds.

Rush used his head, hands and feet to keep the balloons from the touching the ground. He floated past the previous record of 39 minutes and 49 seconds.

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