Alligator Found In Detroit In Vacant Lot, Rescuer Takes It Home
Detroit, MI – An alligator found in Detroit will have a new home after originally turning up in a vacant lot.
The alligator was originally found Thursday night after being tossed out of a truck in temperatures hovering just above freezing, WDIV-TV reports. The 5-foot-long alligator was found in an abandoned lot on Detroit’s east side.
Shontez Gibson was with his uncle when he saw the alligator being dumped into the field and decided to rescue it.
“A black truck pulled up, they got out and I thought they was dumping a body,” said Shontez Gibson, who helped rescue the exotic animal. “So, I told my uncle. My uncle said, ‘Come on, let’s go see.’ My uncle chased the truck up the street and they stopped, so my uncle ran back. And when we got back in the field I said, ‘No, it’s an alligator.’ ”
Gibson was nervous at first to handle the live alligator.
“So, he said, ‘Pick it up,’ I said, ‘No, you pick it up!’ ” Gibson said. “He said, ‘All right, come on, let’s take it in the house.’ I pick it up, take it in the house. He was scared and ran.”
Despite the danger posed from a live alligator, Gibson and his uncle took the alligator to his home where it was kept warm with a space heater while he fed it some fish, the Detroit Free Press reported.
On Friday, the Michigan Humane Society swooped in to take in the alligator found in Detroit. It is now resting comfortably at the Humane Society’s facility in Rochester Hills, north of Detroit. Officials from the Motor City said the alligator found in Detroit may sound incredible to outsiders, but, within the city, it’s not uncommon to find all kinds of things in vacant lots which become de-facto dumping grounds for trash and other refuse.
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Posted: December 24, 2012
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Dec 25, 2012
that's what I like about the south, we let gators swim and live. who in thier right mind would carry a gator to the north it ain't fit for humans much less a florida gator.
Dec 25, 2012
that dude is a Detroit Citizen.
Dec 25, 2012
Panic in Detroit! thank you David Bowie.
Dec 25, 2012
That's what I like about the north, we treat critters better than niggars.
Dec 25, 2012
Poor al-be-gator. We are all Gods creations.
Shame on you Gene Hickerson. I guess that's why you have hick in your name.
Dec 25, 2012
I had a little alligator when I was in Louisiana earlier this year. Not bad. Tasted a little like chicken.
Dec 25, 2012
Yeah I know I am in Detroit now… Thanks for publishing the quote… You didn't hold back, sums everything up on who found the gator. GREAT GATOR GRAMMAR! Hat's of to the Detroit school system!
“A black truck pulled up, they got out and I thought they was dumping a body,” said Shontez Gibson, who helped rescue the exotic animal. “So, I told my uncle. My uncle said, ‘Come on, let’s go see.’ My uncle chased the truck up the street and they stopped, so my uncle ran back. And when we got back in the field I said, ‘No, it’s an alligator.’ ”.
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/454161/alligator-found-in-detroit-in-vacant-lot-rescuer-takes-it-home/#0JhsTUt0XZsdeMrg.99.
Dec 25, 2012
Redneck. Who wants to live in a swamp, insect infested cess pool? Long live the North.
Dec 25, 2012
Ron is right people. Putting aside cultural and geographic loyalty … a reptile has no business living in Detroit. People may sometimes refer to them as living dinosaurs, but actually the crocodilian family predates the dinosaurs. AND while many people believe dinosaurs were endothermic, there is no doubt that alligators are NOT. Unless one is able to afford it a temperature regulated habitat… not too likely for a five-foot alligator … it would be cruel to keep it that far above the freeze line. As hatchlings they might be kept in an indoor aquarium, but anyone in their right mind knows they are not going to stay little and cute forever.
Dec 25, 2012
Oh really? Why then was an exothermic animal abandoned in freezing weather and in a place which, according to the article has become "de-facto dumping grounds for trash and other refuse".
Dec 25, 2012
Someone probably figured the gator could clean up some of the dead bodies left around Detroit. Bing can't do it all!
Dec 25, 2012
I must agree pink. Personally, however, what really raises my hackles is not the author's grammar. It is saying the alligator was dumped in a "de-facto dumping grounds for trash and other refuse". Under no circumstances should a living, beautiful, exotic, and worthwhile animal be described, even indirectly, as trash or other refuse.
Dec 25, 2012
At least it was rescued. Scum of the Earth kind of people deserve to be behind bars for dumping it.
Dec 25, 2012
From what I hear an see on TV , all of Detroit is a cesspool and CHicago a close second. They could have feed the gator a few mooslimes.
Dec 25, 2012
Gary Hutsill, I would love to stick this educated, Louisiana redneck's foot up your ass!!
Dec 25, 2012
And your frickin last name – amoeba – do, sounds non-human…
Dec 25, 2012
Should have dumped him at the whitehouse – he could have fed on the human waste there for the next 100 yrs..
Dec 25, 2012
I hate hearing about people mistreating any animal. I'm so glad to hear the two guys found it and took it in. a good gift for the alligator for christmas. I hope they find the guys who did this and prosecute them.
Dec 25, 2012
Yeah, love smelling those urine pooled alleyways and avoiding those rat infested trash covered alleys up North. High civilization….
Dec 25, 2012
Hell we eat them in the south finger licken good….
Dec 25, 2012
it looks like elvis from Miami vice.
Dec 25, 2012
As supposed to your house where the waste reduction would only take one bite and one death roll!!!
Dec 25, 2012
Ron, often 'gators like this one was gotten for a "pet" when a baby. They're cute when small, but some people don't realize that animals grow up and revert back to type… And.. some people don't even realize they're animals, unfortunately.
Dec 25, 2012
You have to forgive them …. It wasn't like the gator walked all the way to Detroit himself
Dec 25, 2012
TO GENE HICKERSON THE ONLY NIGGAR IS YOU COME INTO THE CENTURY AND NOT THE TWILIGHT ZONE TOBAD WE STILL HAVEM IGNORANT BASTARDS LIKE YOU IN THIS WORLD
Dec 25, 2012
Gary Hutsill iI SECOND MR JAMES STEVEN COMMENT
Dec 25, 2012
find the people who done this and fine them so bad that will never do something so ignorant. some peope's children!
Dec 25, 2012
Gary Hutsill Apparently many northerners. Source: every visit to Florida. 32 degrees in Detroit and 72 here.
Dec 25, 2012
You got that right,,Just because Southerners talk a little slower and love a little deeper don't mean we're Dumb. My folks moved me to near Pittsburgh when I was 5,,of course we visited our Southern roots almost every summer,,I will always regret not getting my parents beautiful Southern accents. My Dad was not only a goodlooking man (Like William Holden) he was a charmer,,could sell you your own shirt. I have my Dad's gift of gab and most of his looks. We've lived near Tampa every winter for last 35 yrs (I worked there in the Winter–Custom Ice Cream Trucks–fleet of 23–we would take 3-4 with Drivers that wanted to go South for the Winter). We originally came from Arkansas. Johnny Cash,,Glen Campbell,,Levon Helm,,and many more,,PLUS one of America's greatest Rock & Roll Radio Program Directors TERRELL METHENY is from Arkansas.
Dec 25, 2012
Stupid for ever raising it in Detroit,,reminds me of the guy that had a Python and screamed and cried the morning he found his infant Daughter crushed to death in her crib.
Dec 25, 2012
Right On.
Dec 25, 2012
Figures,,,Obowma can do no wrong,,RIGHT?
Dec 25, 2012
I'd rather my Grand Children look like my family,,
Dec 25, 2012
Sorry we live in Fla. all the Aligators and baby Pythons,,could disappear tomm. would make us very happy.
Dec 25, 2012
Some DUMB parents probably bought that thing when it was tiny for their kids,,Being TOO STUPID to realize it would grow very big. I actually had a guy apply for a job and his friend sat in the other chair in my garage with a albino python about 5 foot long wrapped around his waist and up around his neck,,SURE I'm gonna put a dipshit like that on one of our $35,000 Custom Ice cream trucks to cruise the neighborhoods,,No wonder Zippy got re-elected,,there's no intelligence OUT THERE.
Dec 25, 2012
James Stephens Amoedo not Amoeba very bad for an educated REDNECK!!!
Dec 26, 2012
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Dec 26, 2012
James, that probably isn't the only thing you'd like to stick up his ass. Deliverance looking motherfucker.
Dec 26, 2012
aaaand it took James all of two posts to go from "alleged smart guy from the south" to "standard anti-government racist redneck".