Posted on 02/09/2016 8:11:13 AM PST by BenLurkin
Investigators identified Joshua James, of Jupiter, Fla., as the man who tossed the 3.5-foot reptile into a Wendy's last fall, according to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission incident report. He faces three charges related to the incident: Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon; unlawful sale, possession or transporting of an alligator; and petty theft.
James, 24, was taken into custody and booked into the Palm Beach County Detention Center on Monday, as first reported by NBC affiliate WPTV.
Wearing a backwards hat and a white t-shirt, the driver arrived at the drive-through window to receive a large drink around 1:23 a.m. on Oct. 11, according to the report's summary of surveillance footage.
"While the attendant has her back to the window and is at her register, the male driver reaches across the inside of his vehicle in the passenger area and throws an alligator from his vehicle into the drive through window," the report reads.
A photograph in the report shows the alligator flat with its legs splayed on the fast food restaurant's kitchen floor. An officer responding to the incident captured the alligator, taped its jaws shut "for safety" and released it into a nearby canal, according to the report.
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Go Gators!
Toss a gator into a Florida restaurant and the result is panic. Toss one into a Louisiana restaurant and the result is dinner.
That will give Wenndy’s a new Add I bet.
The Gator or the 24 year old?
The authorities only want to put him away for inconveniencing the gator.
This gator abuse has to stop!!
Where is PETA on this!!??
We need to institute Gator control immediately, if not sooner.
How may people (or gators) have to die before we start gator control.
Oh, the children, how to we save them?
I said, pretty harmless. In this case it turned out harmless. Like many pranks it could have gone terribly wrong. I still see over charging as a symptom of big government.
And when it does it’s wondermous, ah garonne-tee!
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That’s weird. The article never mentions anyone panicking.
Dwarf tossing is one thing, but one has crossed the proverbial line with alligator tossing.
Fish and Wildlife has been brutal for generations!
Choot ‘em?
lol and bump for creativity
I wouldn’t call a 3 and a half gator a deadly weapon, more of a nuisance. Now a 16 footer would be deadly but they’re pretty much untossable. Perhaps a charge of animal cruelty?
If the police were involved then "deadly weapon" was not dealt with by the kitchen staff. :)
From the article
“A photograph in the report shows the American alligator flat with its legs splayed on the fast-food restaurant’s kitchen floor. An officer responding to the incident captured the alligator, taped its jaws shut “for safety†and released it into a nearby canal, according to the report.”
The way it reads it still had it’s jaws taped. That’s just plain cruel!
Fried gator ain’t too bad.
He taped the jaws shut and threw it into a canal? Not very humane.
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