We Told You So

We here at Blue Crab Boulevard don't like to brag. Well, ok, we actually do when we can get away with it. Anyway, we warned you that the alligator legions were on the move the other day. Today we have still more proof. Not in Pennsylvania this time, but further north on Long Island. But once again the rabid, raging reptile was lying in wait for a man trying to get his newspaper!

The alligator was sitting on a Lindenhurst man's front lawn when he went out to get his paper this morning. At the sight of the homeowner, the gator ran to hide in the hedges.

Suffolk County police officers used a dog-catching noose to collar the animal.

The homeowner helped police, grabbing the 3-foot-long gator by its tail and pulling it out of the hedges. Its mouth was then duct-taped shut.

The alligator was taken to the BTJ's Jungle Pets & Aquarium in West Islip for safekeeping, but authorities later removed it Saturday afternoon.

BTJ owner Tom Niehoff said the gator was healthy and docile, and was probably somebody's pet.

Authorities don't know where it came from, but owning an alligator violates state law, said Roy Gross, chief of the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The authorities are trying to make people believe it is just an escaped pet, nothing to worry about, move along. But we here in the Crabitat know the truth. The reptilian legions of doom are setting clever traps baited with newspapers just trying to catch the unwary.

If you needed another reason to cancel your subscription to the New York Times, there it is. Drop the paper before the alligators come for you, too!

categories Animals | Gaius Sunday, 25 June , 2006

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