[Behind Liberal Lines]

That may be, but normally a new organization that ISNT the Enqurier doesn't assume it's a possibly fictional creature.

If anything, the logical assumption would be that it was an escaped exotic pet. After all, NYC had a man with a tiger in an apartment. And they found an alligator in a pond in Boston this summer.

In neither case did the press at first assume we were dealing with bogeymen or lake monsters.

[drhogan]

workers in the new york subway system have seen skunk apes the size of horses. kids get them as pets and the parents flush them down the toilet when the skunk apes start to smell bad. they wander around down in the sewers and the subways. THIS IS WELL DOUCMENTED!!!