Larry Green was pronounced dead after being hit by a car, and was zipped into a body bag in Raleigh, N.C.

So imagine the shock of Medical Examiner J.B. Perdue as he examined Green’s body in the morgue two hours later – and the “dead man” suddenly took a shallow breath.

“I had to look twice myself just to make sure it was there – that’s how subtle it was,” Perdue said.

Green, 29, is now at a hospital in critical condition.

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An Oklahoma politician is pushing a bill that would allow legal cockfighting – with the birds wearing boxing gloves.

“Who’s going to object to chickens fighting like humans do? Everybody wins,” said Sen. Frank Shurden of Oklahoma City.

“Let the roosters do what they love to do without getting injured.”

Is this guy a dumb cluck, or what?

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Bonnie Pearson took her brand-new Honda in for its first car wash, and now her vehicle is a total loss.

Cops say that as she rode through Piggy’s Car Wash in Liberty, Ind., the auto struck a portable heater which tipped over and burst into flames, causing the Honda to burst into flames.

Pearson managed to dive out, but the car’s a goner.

“You don’t think about fires at the car wash,” Assistant Fire Chief Kenny Alcorn said.

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A boozed-up Russian fell 40 feet from a balcony and walked away without a scratch – and doctors believe the bottle of vodka he downed saved him.

A pal of the 30-year-old Moscow man said, “The medics . . . said he must have drunk so much that his muscles and limbs were so relaxed, they were almost like jelly – and he bounced off the ground when he hit it, like a ball.”

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A leading rabbi has laid down the law on amateur operatics in the shower – you can hum, but you can’t sing.

Mordechai Eliahu, former leader of Israel’s Sephardic Jews, says the Hebrew language is not to be sullied by use in the bathroom – although he does make one exception.

“To hum without a word in Hebrew crossing your mind is acceptable,” he said.