Monday, August 23, 2010
A legend makes an appearence
While no one is quite sure which sewer it came from, there is no doubt that a 2 foot alligator was caught in Queens on Sunday.
“It was about two feet long,” Ms. Hackett, a novelist, said. “It was like the urban legend washes up from the sewer and says, ‘What the heck am I doing here?’ and hides under a Datsun.”In a city with alligators in the sewers, one has to wonder why the Republicans are all worried about a cultural center. They must be from out of town, the GOP that is.
The Police Department’s emergency service unit arrived and used a pole to hook and cage the animal and take it to the local precinct station house, said James Duffy, a police spokesman. The police also called Animal Care and Control of New York City to come get the animal.
“We’re not sure if it’s an alligator or a crocodile because we’re not zoologists,” Officer Duffy said. “No one knows where it came from, if it came from the sewer or not.” He called the creature “tiny and harmless.”
“No one had to come and wrestle with it,” he said. “It’s not big enough to eat a dog — maybe a mouse.”
Later on Sunday, Richard Gentles, a spokesman for Animal Care and Control, said the animal was indeed an alligator. Where it came from is unknown.
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