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Alligator found hiding under parked car in Detroit suburb
UPI ^ | October 04, 2024 | Ben Hooper

Posted on 10/04/2024 11:26:32 AM PDT by Red Badger

Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Police were called to a home in a Detroit suburb to remove a 4-foot alligator found lurking underneath a resident's car.

Marysoul Mousa-Aqrawi said she was preparing to leave for work when neighbors alerted her to the events unfolding in her Sterling Heights driveway.

"And everybody's like 'there's an alligator under your car!' And I'm like 'are you serious?' And then I look and here we go -- he's laying down under my car," Mousa-Aqrawi told WXYZ-TV.

The Sterling Heights Police Department arrived on the scene and summoned assistance from The Reptarium, a zoo in Utica.

Zookeepers captured the gator and transported it to their facility for care.

Police said they believe the alligator was an illegal pet that either escaped or was set loose by its owner.

"The Sterling Heights Police Department would like to remind the public that as it may seem to be cool to own an exotic animal such as an alligator, its still very dangerous," the department said in a statement provided to The Detroit News. "Furthermore, against city ordinance to possess one."

Keeping dangerous exotic animals is a misdemeanor offense in Sterling Heights and carries a potential fine of up to $500.

VIDEO AT LINK........................


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alligator; floridaman; michigan
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To: Red Badger

When will people realize alligators aren’t pets? Neither are snakes.


21 posted on 10/04/2024 11:58:25 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Red Badger
”Police said they believe the alligator was an illegal pet that either escaped or was set loose by its owner.”

No reason to be alarmed, citizen.

The gaslighting never ceases.

22 posted on 10/04/2024 12:02:22 PM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: Red Badger

23 posted on 10/04/2024 12:02:49 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: Red Badger

They do like their gators shoes in Detroit...


24 posted on 10/04/2024 12:04:00 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: Larry Lucido

Ha. Just watched that episode.


25 posted on 10/04/2024 12:05:24 PM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: Red Badger

“And everybody’s like ..”
“And I’m like ..”

Good news is they didn’t have to kill that Gator to move him from under her car.
She should have just thrown a one legged Rooster down in front of the car, and stood back, as Gator grabbed his lunch
The Rooster could have been tied to a rope leading to a cage


26 posted on 10/04/2024 12:07:47 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Red Badger

What’s the driver’s name, again..Minnie Mouse?


27 posted on 10/04/2024 12:09:05 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: rdl6989

“I wasn’t expecting to read this today”

You should plan better


28 posted on 10/04/2024 12:12:29 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: GaltAdonis

I made a cioppino yesterday. $8/# Costco octopus, regular store scallops $9/# Shrimp $8/# clams $4/#. Outrageously good.

I make it once a year. Next year I will add gator.


29 posted on 10/04/2024 12:17:59 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Red Badger

That alligator is in danger.


30 posted on 10/04/2024 12:20:33 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you"e)
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To: FamiliarFace

You never know what your neighbor has in his bathtub...

The worst is, when exotic animals become too much to care for they’re released someplace where they likely can’t survive.


31 posted on 10/04/2024 12:26:02 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Flag_This

What is ‘gaslighting’ about that statement? It’s probably what happened.


32 posted on 10/04/2024 1:26:58 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: dfwgator
Detroit Fort Worth gator.....

A Floridian vacations in Michigan.

Go Lions!

33 posted on 10/04/2024 1:40:05 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Stay the course!)
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To: Lakeshark

Go Tigers!


34 posted on 10/04/2024 1:42:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

See ya later alligator


35 posted on 10/04/2024 2:10:07 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Larry Lucido
So I googled it and found that was another reference to Seinfeld, oy vey.   Yankees love their Seinfeld.

Things that go right over my head for $500, Alex.

36 posted on 10/04/2024 2:22:26 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Jamestown1630
”What is ‘gaslighting’ about that statement? It’s probably what happened.”

Sure it is.

37 posted on 10/04/2024 5:01:51 PM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: Flag_This

Well, how do you suppose it did happen?


38 posted on 10/04/2024 5:29:57 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

That’s exactly right, and that’s how we end up with stories like this in the Midwest.


39 posted on 10/04/2024 6:01:52 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: FamiliarFace
I knew someone many years ago who was stupid enough to bring a baby one back from Florida. He kept it in one of the bathtubs.

As I heard, his wife despised it so much she put Comet™ on a piece of meat and killed it.
40 posted on 10/04/2024 6:15:38 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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