Published May 11, 2023
And, in line with the classic Big Apple hoax, alligators are apparently rearing their heads in Gotham as well.
In 2010, cops apprehended an 18-inch reptile of unknown provenance that emerged from an overflowing Astoria storm drain and hunkered down beneath a parked car.
This past February, meanwhile, officials hauled a lethargic, possibly cold-shocked 4-foot-long alligator from Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Lake near an area popular with kids.
Park officials suspected that the gator — which had a bathroom stopper in its stomach — was an unwanted pet whose owner had decided to release it into public waters
Despite getting tended to at the Bronx zoo, the reptilian refugee succumbed last month to various injuries in what officials are calling a “tragic case of animal abuse.”
Of course, city parks and deluge chutes aren’t the only unlikely places that alligators are rearing their scaly heads.
Over the weekend, an Alabama tourist’s seaside getaway resembled a scene from “Godzilla” when he spotted an enormous alligator swimming in the Gulf of Mexico.
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