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An Ohio police chief woke up in the middle of the night when he heard noises, grabbed his gun to investigate – and discovered a young man playing Beethoven on the piano.

Turns out Shawn Chadwell, 19, was drunk and looking for a friend’s house when he mistakenly wandered into the residence of New Riegel Chief Steve Swartzmiller.

Chadwell was charged with underage drinking and burglary, but the chief admits the kid played Beethoven beautifully.

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A Princeton University student newspaper showed incredibly bad taste by publishing a list of the “Top 10 Holocaust movies I’ve never seen but would like to.”

The Nassau Weekly altered film titles like “Dude, Where’s My Car?” “Weekend at Bernie’s” and “Meet the Fockers” to “Dude, Where’s My Family?” “A Week at Bergen-Belsen” and “Exterminate the Fockers.”

School officials dubbed the satire “undeniably offensive,” and might discipline the paper’s staff.

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A bride in India invited volunteers to marry her after the groom fled minutes before the ceremony. The hubby-to-be ran off after claiming the bride, Suggi, was not the same girl to whom he’d been introduced as part of an arranged marriage.

Luckily, a man named Balram, of Maklakher, immediately offered his hand and Suggi’s parents approved their new son-in-law on the spot.

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Elsewhere in India, a man hopes to set a world record by eating 50 cockroaches in a minute.

Ramesh Kumar, 26, of Coimbatore, wants to beat the current record of 36.

“I do not have any kind of fear from them. One day, I tried to taste a cockroach and I liked it very much,” he said.

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A doctor has invented a musical condom that gets louder as the sex becomes more passionate.

Different sexual positions determine which tune is played by the condom, which has tiny sensors connected to a mini electronic device that produces the sounds.

Ukrainian inventor Dr. Grigoriy Chausovskiy said, “There is no danger of being electrocuted. But people will pay for the extra stimulation.”