ALLIGATOR FOUND WALKING THE STREETS IN NEW YORK CITY

An alligator was found casually walking in upper Manhattan last Thursday. Police from the 34th Precinct corralled the 3-foot-long reptile at Ninth Avenue and 205th Street until Animal Care & Control collected it. It was not clear where the alligator came from.
* Nor where it was going.
* Maybe it was saying hello to some friends in the windows of purse shops.
* Okay, I just Googled 9th Avenue and 205th Street. The gator was clearly on his way to Bronx Community College. It’s the only thing up that far north.
* I’m surprised the New York rats didn’t attack it.
* Of course the alligator was walking down the street. It had been living in Central Park but the coyotes there drove it out.
* And yes, that’s partly true: they did capture a coyote in Central Park.