Gecko survives week in English fridge

upi ^ | April 2, 2010

[JoeProBono]

BIDEFORD, England, - A woman in southwestern England was surprised when she discovered a gecko, a small lizard native to warmer climes, in the bottom of a bag of apples.

The gecko had survived a week in Wendy Newbury's refrigerator, The Daily Telegraph reported. She did not notice it until she took the bag out of the refrigerator after the apples had been eaten.

"It then must have started warming up and he started moving around," Newbury said. "He was such a sweet and amazing little thing and me and my husband, Brian, are both animal lovers so we didn't want anything to happen to it."

No one knows how the gecko got into the apples Newbury purchased at a Waitrose supermarket in Holworthy, near her home in Bideford, Devon. The apples were labeled as grown in Kent, but experts say the gecko probably came from Asia.

The Newburys took the gecko to Torbridge Veterinary Center, where staffers named it Gordon in honor of Gordon Gekko, hero of the movie "Wall Street." The lizard is now being cared for by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, The Daily Telegraph reported.

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[cajuncow]

"tastes like.....uh huh...." Cake.

[JoeFromSidney]

When I was stationed in Thailand we had small lizard (jingjoks) living the house. They ate insects, especially mosquitoes, so we left them alone. One lived under the electric mixer on the kitchen counter. It would come out to lick up the splashes when my wife made up the powdered milk every morning. We had a larger lizard, a gecko, who would show up on the outside of the bathroom window every night, to eat the moths and other things that were attracted by the light coming through the window.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Thats easy,she had a lucas refrigerator.Lucas,the prince of darkness.

[driftdiver]

We had one in our Christmas tree one year. Kept hearing a rustle all through Christmas and couldn’t figure out what it was. When we took the tree down the thing went running across the floor.

[JoeProBono]

[TribalPrincess2U]

My little fellows are pinkish.

[dalereed]

Do you mean that thing isn’t a cartoon in an insurance ad?

[Erasmus]

Thats easy,she had a lucas refrigerator.Lucas,the prince of darkness.

Except in the case of the fridge light, which was controlled by a Lucas switch; therefore, it never went out.

[green pastures]

Yeah, but I hear a week in human time is, like, umm, 15 minutes in gecko time...

;-)

[green pastures]

Wow. That is one HUGE pencil...

;-)

Seriously, that’s one very cute little lizard thingy.

[green pastures]

I would love to know the playlist...

[JoeProBono]

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Hear,hear!

[BruceysMom]

I have a little green anole that lives here next to my computer. His name is Oz, the wonderful lizard named Oz! He just ate a huge cricket so he’s rather fat right now.

[Daffynition]

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[Tijeras_Slim]

I ought to push abuse on ya’ posting pictures of anole sex.

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