https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lake-michigan-investigators-want-to-know-who-left-gator-waukegan-illinois/

 

I wonder if someone let it loose, or it got loose on its own.

 

 

 

10 minutes ago, Bankbeater said:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lake-michigan-investigators-want-to-know-who-left-gator-waukegan-illinois/

 

I wonder if someone let it loose, or it got loose on its own.

 

 

 

My brother sent me this earlier today. Absolutely crazy. My guess is

someone let it loose. Hard to imagine one surviving years of Lake

Michigan winters...though if there are warm water discharges, def

possible.

It had rubber bands holding it's mouth closed so it can't have been out there for more than a few months at most

an alligator was spotted 3 miles west of my house in Kansas, on Monday. it was someones pet. with all the water from this weeks rain, he decided to go on walkabout. its funny in parts of the KC metro it is illegal to own a pitbull, but here you can own a 4ft. alligator.

here are a couple links to the story.

https://fox4kc.com/2018/10/09/kansas-alligator-caught-on-camera-spooks-neighbors-law-enforcement/

 

https://www.kansas.com/news/nation-world/national/article219733695.html

 

 

Some idiot was keeping a pet alligator in a pond not to far from the Susquehanna River a couple years ago. Sure they won't survive the winter but they will scare the youknowwhat out of you until then. It just amazes me how unconcerned some people can be about other peoples safety. Some people claim its a "pet" but you have a responsibility to others in the community to not keep "pets" that can endanger others if loose. 

The alligator in Lake Michigan was found in northern Illinois so chances are pretty good @slonezp bought for himself as an early sweetest day present but it grew to big for his bathtub. ?

5 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

The alligator in Lake Michigan was found in northern Illinois so chances are pretty good @slonezp bought for himself as an early sweetest day present but it grew to big for his bathtub. ?

Figured he had a better chance surviving in fresh water than bathtub gin

24 minutes ago, slonezp said:

Figured he had a better chance surviving in fresh water than bathtub gin

You keeping the spirit of old Chicago alive and well it sounds like. Your new building your moving into at work is a speak easy isn't it? ?

17 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

You keeping the spirit of old Chicago alive and well it sounds like. Your new building your moving into at work is a speak easy isn't it? ?

Or a paint store ?