Posted on 10/21/2024 1:11:51 PM PDT by Red Badger
BELLEVUE, Ky. — Charges are pending after an alligator was discovered inside a basement in northern Kentucky.
According to Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Law Enforcement, two game wardens responded to a home in Bellevue, Kentucky last month after getting a report of an alligator in the basement.
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Game Wardens Jimmy Rice and Paul Sorrell seized a three-foot alligator from a residence in Bellevue, KY at the end of September. Bellevue-Dayton Fire Department had responded to a call at the residence and notified wardens about an alligator in the basement. A search warrant was obtained and executed, and an investigation followed after finding the alligator. The resident had purchased it at a reptile show in Indiana earlier in the year and had failed to check if it was legal to possess in Kentucky. Charges are currently pending in this case.
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Officials said a warrant was obtained and after searching the home, a three-foot alligator was discovered and an investigation ensued.
According to the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Law Enforcement, the resident said they had purchased it at a reptile show in Indiana earlier in the year and had failed to check if it was legal to possess in Kentucky.
Officials said charges are currently pending in this case.
Has the gator reached the age of criminal responsibility? Is it of sound mind? Was it read its Miranda rights?
“Government has far too many laws, rules and regulations over us peons.”
Reminds me of the stories where some family rescues a baby fawn or racoon and it lives peacefully on their farm for years until some busy body gets wind and the Department of Wildlife comes over, fines you, then shoots it, for its own good.
Does it eat turtles?
3ft long? It’s either a Baby Gator or a Dwarf.
They’re charging the alligator?
Give him hard labor :)
Ok, but only as long as the gator control is “common sense” gator control
Sure.
We will need serial numbers to regulate gators from egg to flush.
that bites...
Possession of an unregistered dinosaur?
Well played.
“It probably has children who miss him/her. Or not.”
Or not. 3-footers are not yet sexually mature.
Mostly peaceful gangs...................
Gators eat pretty much anything that doesn’t eat them first......including other gators....................
It’s just a baby..................
Yep. Incredible. Probably should have started on game 2.
It’s legal .
The gator now identifies as a hamster so no laws are broken.
So some poor person had to say “see you later alligator” to their beloved pet?
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