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7-foot gator climbs out of storm drain in Bucktown: Report(picture)
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^ | 4/17/17 | Chelsea Brasted, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

Posted on 04/17/2017 5:22:15 PM PDT by BBell

You never know what lurks beneath a city, and doubly so when you live above a swamp.

But in a photo snapped by Steven Nicholson and posted to Twitter by WWL reporter Natalie Shepherd, there's no mystery: That is a seven-foot alligator climbing out of a storm drain.

(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: 7foot; bucktown; gator; louisiana; stormdrain
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To: piasa
"...They will bite though they don’t hurt."

The bite from a five-banded skink is more deadly than a hot dose of China White, and will kill you more quickly than a poisonous fish.

Well, I probably made that up. But wouldn't that be cool?

;^)

21 posted on 04/17/2017 7:42:46 PM PDT by Gargantua ("Still not tired of winning---beeyotch!" ;^)
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To: Pentagon Leatherneck

These things are nasty looking.


22 posted on 04/17/2017 8:25:49 PM PDT by boycott
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To: piasa

I’ve heard good things about these nasty looking lizards but I don’t want them in the house. Freaked me out.


23 posted on 04/17/2017 8:27:22 PM PDT by boycott
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To: 2111USMC

Thank you for explaining this,now that makes sense.


24 posted on 04/17/2017 9:16:49 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: dezrat

Near Fat City


25 posted on 04/17/2017 9:26:26 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: BBell

He’s headed to Deanie’s for an oyster po-boy.


26 posted on 04/17/2017 9:29:35 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: boycott

You should wepcome these skinks in your house. They eat the nasty bugs. Ever had a cricket that would sing all night? These guys eat them


27 posted on 04/17/2017 10:22:33 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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To: ViLaLuz
He’s headed to Deanie’s for an oyster po-boy.

There's a square drain grate like that right across the street from Deanie's. He's definitely close enough to batter and fry. :-)

28 posted on 04/17/2017 11:02:54 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: piasa

“... latch onto your earlobes and they’ll stay there..”

Thank you, piasa... for the nightmares that I’m going to have now. :)


30 posted on 04/18/2017 6:44:08 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: AnalogReigns

Not far from downtown New Orleans.


31 posted on 04/18/2017 7:54:12 AM PDT by beezus
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