Posted on 08/23/2010 3:36:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Yes, the story's real. And there are pictures to prove it. And the cops were quite exasperated as to just what they were looking at, and where exactly it came from: “We're not sure if it's an alligator or a crocodile because we're not zoologists,” New York City Police Department Spokesman James Duffy told the New York Times.
"No one knows where it came from, if it came from the sewer or not.”
The urban legends of sewer-dwelling Big Apple reptiles are known worldwide - as are the myths of alligators coming up through the toilets. So it was little surprise that a massive crowd of New Yorkers gathered Sunday afternoon at Newton Avenue and 29th Street, northeast of midtown Manhattan in the heart of Queens - right down the street from King Wah Restaurant, a Chinese takeout joint with mixed reviews. (Could the croc have been lured by the smell of fried chicken?)
The 2-foot-long animal - later identified by animal experts as a baby alligator - was reportedly tiny, only large enough to kill a mouse. But the discovery has sparked an array of fascinating revelations in the 24 hours since.
For starters, how can an alligator make its way through crowded New York City streets, before getting trapped under a car? Second, all of us here at NewsFeed were a little shocked to learn that, according to Animal Care and Control spokesman Richard Gentles, two to four alligators or crocodiles are rescued in the city by his agency every year. Where are all these creatures coming from! Have any been traced back to a bathroom?!
(Excerpt) Read more at newsfeed.time.com ...
He looks like he’ll make a magnificent pair of boots with matching belt, someday.
Hmmm WHich came first the alligator or the egg?
Looks like a gator to me. A small on at that. It has the short, stubby snout.
I saw an alligator with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
Fixed it.
I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
walkin through the streets of Soho in the rain.
He was lookin for the place called Lee Ho Fooks, gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein.
-Warren Zevon
They’ve had ‘gator hunts here in the Mobile Bay delta the pass few weeks. The hunters can kill anything over 6ft. However, they are putting back the 9ft’ers cause they’re not big enough.
Alliator of London?
In Florida that same gator would barely bat a eye lid
Does this mean they are suffering from “reptile dysfunction?”
Now that is pretty amazing...do you know where they caught this 500lb..12 footer...?
rise to the occasion didja? sd
“I saw an alligator with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain”
Alligators of London?
I CAN HAS KUNG POW CHIKN?
LOLGATORS
Mobile Bay in Alabama
NYC:
Rats,roaches,bed bugs and gators. Oh yeah and worst of all, Democrats.
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