Posted on 10/15/2005 7:32:04 PM PDT by Calpernia
With all this rain, New Jersey may have seemed like a swamp this week.
But alligators?
Piscataway police recovered a 3-foot long alligator in the backyard of a house on Saturday.
"It's not normal to find an alligator around here," said Lt. George Maurer of the Piscataway police department. He added with a chuckle, "I know we've had a lot of rain."
Maurer said a woman on the 1800 block of West 7th St. called police around 12:30 a.m. saying she had spotted an alligator in her back yard.
Police arrived on the scene, determined it was indeed a gator, and called for an animal control officer.
"The animal control officer handles loose dogs and cats and, every twenty years, or so an alligator," Maurer said.
The animal control officer trapped the alligator in a cage, and took it to the Edison animal shelter. Authorities said neither they nor the woman who first spotted the alligator knew how it got there.
Maurer, who has been on the force for 28 years, said this is the first time he's heard of an alligator in town.
It must have come from the neighboring NYC sewer system. Where else?
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