Matthew Goff was relaxing by a Florida pond when he looked up to see his dog, Sugar – trapped in the jaws of a alligator.

Goff, 29, of Gainesville, wrestled the gator and stabbed it with a pocket knife, forcing the beast to release the pooch, who took off for home with three bite marks, but otherwise OK.

Then, “I just closed my eyes and ran away from [the gator], just hoping that he would be freaked out enough that he wouldn’t try and bite me,” Goff said.

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A man trying to kill a mosquito ended up setting his parents’ home on fire.

Cops in Japan say Tatsuo Onishi sprayed pesticide in the house, then went outside for a cigarette. The lighter ignited flammable particles in the air and sparked an inferno.

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In a case that could give U.S. matrimonial lawyers a collective coronary, an Indian man divorced his wife – as she slept.

Firdause Alam was napping in Uttar Pradesh when her hubby, Shahzad, uttered the word “talaq” – which means “I divorce you” – three times.

Neighbors are furious.

“Temporarily, we have socially boycotted the family of the groom,” said Mohammad Ismail, a council chief.

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Sexual frustration has turned a monkey from a mild-mannered simian into a problem primate who smokes cigarettes and spits at visitors at a Chinese zoo.

Officials in Henan province say Feili, a female chimp, transformed into “a shrew” after a male chimp failed to satisfy her.

She then picked up her nasty habits by imitating visitors who behaved “improperly” near her cage

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A South African man who fatally shot his pregnant fiancée before killing himself was posthumously wed to her.

When David Masenta blew away Mgwanini Molomo after a fight, then turned the gun on himself, their families decided to remember them as a happy couple, so they dressed the groom’s corpse in a cream suit and the bride’s in a gown.

“In African culture, there is no death – there is merely the separation of body and soul,” said cultural expert Mathole Motshekga. “This does not mean the relationship has irretrievably broken down.”