An albino alligator became so excited when he got to Iowa, he turned pink.

But officials at Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines said it’s not odd that their new 8-foot-long addition changed color.

“Albino alligators turn pink with excitement as they adjust to their new environment,” said zoo director David Allen, who’s dubbed the beast “Pinky.”

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Charles Wesley’s backyard barbecue got off to a nightmare start when he noticed a yellow-and-black box in the bushes with the words “nuclear” and “radioactive” on the side.

“Something like that, you can’t just throw it in your trash can,” said Wesley of Bethlehem, Pa.

Cops determined it was a nuclear compaction device commonly used in construction that had been stolen and dumped. It has the same level of radiation as two smoke detectors.

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For frisky Swedish couples unable to get to the drugstore, here comes the condom ambulance!

Beginning Friday, sexed-up lovers can call a number and a white ambulance-like van, with a winged, red condom as its logo, will rush over a pack of 10 prophylactics.

“It is 50 percent about pregnancy and 50 percent about sexually transmitted diseases. If we need to get out into the bedrooms to make things better, we will do it,” said Carl Osvald of the Swedish Organization for Sex Education.

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Fifty police officers from the border city of Nogales, Mexico, were detained for eight hours after one of them repeatedly croaked like a frog and barked like a dog over the police radio frequency.

Assistant Police Chief Hector Leon said he wanted the cops to sweat after their shift ended because no one would take responsibility for the “childish actions.” “We had to discipline all of them to make sure the jokester was punished,” he said.

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A member of Greenland’s local parliament is pleading “self-defense” to charges she forced her way into a hotel and stole some booze.

Jensine Berthelsen said she had to break into the hotel in the west coast town of Sisimiut because “it was cold and there was no other way to get in.”