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Thu 11 Dec, 2003 07:23 am
Postal Workers Find Live Alligator
Quote:A 4ft alligator chewed its way out of a shipping carton before a postal worker in the US tossed it into a hamper and called animal control officers.
Employees were sorting mail on when they noticed the alligator chewing its way out of an Express Mail box, said JoAnne Blackburn, a Postal Service spokeswoman in Milwaukee, Illinois.
Workers tried to tape the box closed, but the alligator bit it open.
"The nose ... was sticking out with its teeth hanging out," said postal employee Jennifer Hejdak. She said a co-worker picked it up by its tail and threw it in a hamper.
The alligator remained at a shelter for a week before being shipped to a northern Illinois sanctuary, said Len Selkurt, executive director of the Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control. The sanctuary owner will then take it to Florida, he said.
This report of the story says that, "Alligators longer than 20 inches are not allowed to be sent through the mail".
So glad there's a law for that.
Is anyone else suddenly possessed with a desire to send a 19 inch alligator through the mail?
Well that's MY Christmas pressie gone down the drain!
What's the law regarding elephants?
Shh....calm down there Stampy....they can hear you...
Hmmm, gila monsters never get too big.....
I guess that does it for the Boa I was planning to send my brother in Hawaii.
Oh, heeven, I was not going to send you an alligator.
Wait a minute - I think I know what the problem was - it was an evil-doer alligator, a terrrrrist, not yer regular ornery 'gater. Yeah that's it, he had anthrax and **** up his ....
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