A Wisconsin woman kept a nonworking freezer filled with 100 dead cats.

Gabriella Bernabei said she is a Wiccan and has been collecting the cats with the intention of “returning them to Mother Earth” as soon as the time is right.

The police were apparently not in touch with nature and seized the carcasses — which she called a violation of her religious freedom.

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British police have shut down a van pulling in big bucks selling burgers, beer and pornography.

Disappointed locals in East Yorkshire bemoaned the loss.

“It makes me wonder how nobody thought of this sooner,” one man reportedly said. “These lads are either business geniuses, or they paid some serious money to get some good focus groups going.”

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If you called this guy crazy like a fox, the foxes probably wouldn’t appreciate the comparison.

An Egyptian was busted at the Cairo airport trying to smuggle eight live foxes and 50 chameleons — all in one large suitcase.

The man hoped to sell the animals in Thailand and buy a computer.

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Sometimes it’s good to be afraid.

A British woman who went to a Thai primate preserve in a bid to overcome her fear of monkeys wound up getting mauled by a pack of macaques.

Dee Darwell, 56, was savaged by the pack when she lay down in the nature area and had to be saved by a group of boatmen.

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Forget a carbon tax. Scientists have found a new way to fight global warming — whale poo.

Researchers have found that sperm-whale droppings are fertilizing the oceans, spurring the growth of plankton.

Some 400,000 tons of carbon are soaked up each year by the 12,000 whales in the Southern Hemisphere.

Todd Venezia, Wire Services