It was almost suicide by soy sauce.

An unidentified, 19-year-old Virginia man drank a whole quart of soy sauce on a dare — and spent the next three days in a coma.

The teen is the first person to overdose on so much salt and survive without lasting neurological problems, according to the Journal of Emergency Medicine.

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Forget cicadas. The gallinippers are coming.

They’re a breed of mosquitoes about 20 times the size of a normal skeeter — with a really nasty bite, to boot — and they’ve been spotted in Florida’s Seminole County.

Bug experts at the University of Florida had predicted an invasion of the quarter-sized critters this year, but now it seems their ranks will increase due to last week’s Tropical Storm Andrea.

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Stealing a few bucks’ worth of copper isn’t worth being electrocuted.

Wichita, Kan., police said they found the body of a man in his 20s next to a Westar Energy power pole.

The victim had parked his bicycle next to the pole, climbed up and cut a 7,200-volt line with bolt cutters, police said.

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If your Sumatran tiger has been suffering from a chronic ear infection for more than a year, it may be time to try acupuncture.

Israeli vets at the Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan zoo said antibiotics failed to help 14-year-old Pedang.

So yesterday a holistic-medicine pro stuck Pedang with pink needles all over his body. No word yet on the outcome — Pedang was sedated at the time.

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As long as they match their blouses . . .

Male commuter-train drivers in northern Sweden don’t like their employer’s ban on wearing shorts — especially in the summer heat.

Their solution? More than a dozen are now wearing company-approved skirts.

Arriva, which runs the line, said it can’t stop the cross-dressing as long as the drivers appear “nice and proper.”