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When Paul Marinaccio was a young boy living in Italy, he was once chased by an angry man who was holding several bullfrogs.

A random, terrifying encounter, and enough to leave him scarred for life.

So when developers of a subdivision near his house in upstate New York began draining water onto his property he was in for a real bad time.

Because it was the perfect breeding ground for frogs!

The frogs would swarm his driveway and lawn, forcing him to be a prisoner in his own home.

So he sued the Town of Clarence and the developer in a seven year, $300,000 lawsuit.

He said in court:

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Awwww NO WAY!

Check out the cutedorableness of these two birds!

There's no way that anyone with Ornithophobia could ever resist this!!

Not only are they gently waking this sleeping teen with their beautiful songs, they actually go hands-on talon-on to make sure she's up!

How pleasantly delightcharmful!

LOLz!

Tags: aww, awww, awwww, beautiful, bird, birds, cute, cuted, cutedorable, delightcharmful, lol, ornithophobia, phobia, sleep, sleeping, teen

Arachnophobia is definitely not an itsy-bitsy fear.

But after a study conducted at Northwestern, researchers were able to help participants get over their spider terrors!

Tags: arachnophobia, fear, northwestern, phobia, research, science, spiders, therapy

"Was" being the keyword.

In his new movie, We Bought A Zoo, while starring alongside Scarlett Johansson, Matt Damon was in very close contact with all sorts of animals.

Even with all the wild lions and tigers hanging around the set, there was only one thing that truly scared Damon… the snakes!

An ET interviewer said to Damon:

"Scarlett revealed to us that you have kind of a fear of snakes."

And Damon responded:

"I did. I got over it."

He said that it was Scarlett's constant teasing that helped him get over his fear. And the fact that the young child actors were more than willing to be covered in the snakes.

Way to go Matt! There's nothing to fear from silly, slithery snakes!

[Image via David Bodrick/DMBJ/WENN.]

Tags: fear, film, lions, matt damon, phobia, scarlett johansson, snakes, tigers, we bought a zoo