Weird BUT true

Not a grrreat hiding spot. A driver in Massachusetts was busted with thousands of heroin baggies stashed in a box of Frosted Flakes, according to cops.

An officer first allegedly noticed a sack of dope in Justin Butchino’s pocket while arresting him for driving with a suspended license, then searched his car. Inside the vehicle was a cereal box containing 3,100 bags of the drug, police said.

Cops rushed to a high-rise building in Canada when a woman reported an alligator on the loose there — only to learn the “’gator” was a sculpture.

The “hysterical” woman had told cops she was hiding in a stairwell of the condo tower in Vancouver Thursday morning to avoid getting chomped. But the beast was actually a “detailed” gold statue on the floor of the building.

Readers are hot and bothered by hardcore porn that’s been popping up on several national news Web sites.

Footage of folks getting frisky was embedded into the digital pages of The Washington Post, The Huffington Post and New York magazine — among others — after the company 5 Star Porn HD bought the domain of a now-defunct video-hosting site once used by the outlets.

An armed Texas crook allegedly hijacked an ambulance while a patient and an EMT were in the back, according to cops.

Brandon Warren, 43, is accused of forcing the ambulance driver out of the vehicle in Houston, prompting the victim to call police, who captured the suspect.

A book was returned to a library in England 63 years overdue — along with a note proclaiming, “Better late than never!”

The Newcastle Libraries said the dusty old copy of Darrell Huff’s “How to Lie with Statistics” was sent by mail by a slacker bookworm who checked it out in 1958.

Luckily for the reader, the library caps late fees at $20.