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WEIRD BUT TRUE

That’s why they call it dope.

A Wisconsin woman chained her 15-year-old daughter to a bed without food or water for 17 hours – after accusing her of stealing her marijuana stash, cops said.

The Green Bay teen finally reached a cellphone to call for help, telling cops her 35-year-old mother accused her of stealing a backpack full of dope from her.

Mom is now cooling her heels in the slammer.

Love cost Charles Gonsoulin some body parts.

Gonsoulin, 41, sneaked into Canada on foot to see his Internet girlfriend, but had to have all his fingers and half his toes amputated because of frostbite after his 100-hour walk from Pembina, N.D., to Emerson, Manitoba.

Gonsoulin tried to enter Canada legally last year, but was refused because of a 1984 robbery conviction.

A Romanian man lost his wife and his mistress in one night after buying both of them personalized gold necklaces and mixing up the gifts.

Petru Cioaba, of Focsany, bought the identical necklaces and had their initials and a personal message engraved onto each one.

But he gave the two women in his life each other’s trinkets, and they quickly caught on and gave him the boot.

Police trying to stop a kidnapping in Holland found they had instead interrupted an elaborate sex game.

Passers-by called cops after seeing three men stuff a young blond woman, handcuffed and gagged, into a van.

After a 20-mile chase, cops ordered the men, now half-naked, out, fearing the woman had been raped.

But it turned out to be a kidnap fantasy game.

No charges were filed, but “we advised her next time to arrange to be kidnapped in her own home,” a police spokesman said.

Ricardo Ivan Garcia, 21, drank 50 shots of tequila to win a $330 prize at nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Minutes later, he became deathly ill and was rushed to the hospital, where he died a few hours later from heart failure brought on by alcohol poisoning.