New York Post

Weird BUT true

- Natalie O’Neill, Wires

Straphange­rs’ feathers were ruffled when a stubborn swan plopped down on the tracks of the London Undergroun­d and refused to move for more than an hour.

Trains on 14 routes were canceled or redirected as workers tried to coax the birdbrain off the rails — which took a full day.

The first rule of “Fight Club” is . . . don’t meet up in China!

Officials in the authoritar­ian nation gave the hit 1999 flick a new ending where police win and the main character fails to carry out a bombing, according to a report.

A final scene showing the Los Angeles skyline exploding was swapped out for a graphic that proclaims, “The police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals.”

An Alabama man got back the wedding ring he lost 30 years ago when the owners of his old house found it under the carpet.

The eagle-eyed couple discovered the diamond band while remodeling the pad near Crane Hill and contacted their real estate agent, who tracked down the ring owner, identified only as Mr. Green.

Green, who lost the jewelry in the 1990s, was floored.

It was neither fish nor fowl. A Florida angler got the catch of a lifetime when he reeled in the corpse of a 40year-old man, according to police.

The fisherman thought he’d hooked a massive fish at Lake Stella in Auburndale on Monday until he made the grisly discovery.

The decedent’s cause of death wasn’t immediatel­y known.

Worse than monster under the bed.

An Australian couple was putting their 3-year-old son down for a nap when they spotted a 6-foot snake curled up under his cot.

The parents, from the Gold Coast, called a wildlife-relocation worker, who removed the nonpoisono­us coastal carpet python — but not before it bit his hand.

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