South Jersey Man Finds Gator on Side the Road

No explantion where 4-foot, 60-to-80-pound beast in cage came from
Posted Aug 8, 2008 4:28 PM CDT
South Jersey Man Finds Gator on Side the Road
An alligator swims through a canal in the Florida Everglades, July 1, 2008.    (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)

A South Jersey man spotted something unusual on his way to work yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports: a caged alligator on the side of a road. Fred Schubert decided to help out the 4-foot, 60-to-80-pound beast, loading the cage into his pickup. After calling several wildlife agencies, an official came to Schubert’s and collected the animal—but offered no explanation of how it’d gotten lost. (More alligator stories.)

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