Another Gator?
For years Sararose Krenger and her family joked that alligators lived near their Ravenswood Gardens' home which is along the Chicago River.
Today, Krenger, 22, and her family were on their boat traveling on the river when their joke became a reality. They spotted a three-to-five-foot alligator basking in the sun along the bank of the North Branch of the Chicago River just north of Belmont Avenue.
We do recall a sizable number of piranhas being part of a "lagoon stocking project" back in the early 1970's on the west and north sides. Some of our older readers may remember the characters involved. Unfortunately, the brutal Chicago winters decimated the tropical predators. Still, one can always hope that either evolution produces a hardier alligator or global warming expands the habitat range of man-eating reptiles and fish.
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posted by SCC at 1:03 AM
18 Comments:
Could we drop off some gators on the fifth floor of city hall?
Or would that be considered animal abuse if they died of food poisoning after munching on he whose shanks are short?
With a food supply of Hill's Horsemeat, vitamin supplements, cat and dog carcasses from Streets and San, and unlimited Asian Carp snacks, this could really go somewhere.
"High hopes...he had hi-ii-gh hopes..."
remember the kangaroo in 016 about 25 years ago?
Hey leave the alligator alone, he doesn't realize Chiraq is a sanctuary city and was gonna eat a bunch of the illegal aliens at Clark Park!!
G, Flint Taylor rassles Gators . . .but only for nickels!
Chicago Sun Times
Three of the alleged victims have remained free, but Patterson is serving a 30-year prison term on gun and drug charges.
In one of the strange twists in Patterson's civil case, a judge allowed Wallace "Gator" Bradley, a former gang enforcer, to sit in court with Patterson's attorney as an "urban translator" to control the volatile defendant. Now Bradley says Patterson's attorney, Frank Avila, owes him $250,000 for his work. Avila and Flint Taylor, Patterson's former lawyer, are fighting over their share of the legal fees.
http://hickeysite.blogspot.com/search?q=Gator+Bradley
Oh, JEEZus! I thought you meant that Gator Bradley was breeding. That's what we need, another Gator. Of course,if he turned up in the river, that wouldn't be so bad. . .
...if you allow one alligator, croc, cayman, repitle of any sort into a quiet neighborhood, sooner or late they all start coming in.
Wait....back it up a sec...someone deliberately stocked local waters with PIRANHAS?
A: Any biologist worth his or her degree (like, oh, ME, for instance) could have told them that even a mild winter would kill them off.
B: If the momos thought that they could actually survive and breed, what the HELL were they hoping to accomplish? Have Asian Tiger beetles, gypsy moths, zebra mussels, death-carp. kudzu and killer bees taught us nothing?
It sure would have made local water S&R a bit more...exciting....
29 and a day said...
remember the kangaroo in 016 about 25 years ago?
8/23/2010 02:51:00 AM
October 19, 1974 Chicago Tribune
Police were summoned, and two of them, Leonard Ciangi and Michael Byrne, cornered him/her in a gangway between two houses on Meade Avenue between Eddy Street and Cornelia Avenue.
They were thoroly kicked for their troubles.
"We were trying to grab him and put handcuffs on him," Byrne said. "He took off, and we chased him for about a block and a half before we lost him."
Byrne said the kangaroo is about 4½ feet high and … was making "strange noises," and added:
"He was, well, he was growling at us. It scared the hell out of us, seeing him in a gangway growling."
Naw, its the same gator. They lied about catching it the first time.
remember the kangaroo in 016 about 25 years ago?
25 years? Have I had that thing that long?
I say we drop some gators off on the Westside,,Would love to see some Mutts RUN when they see one!
Anonymous said...
Hey leave the alligator alone, he doesn't realize Chiraq is a sanctuary city and was gonna eat a bunch of the illegal aliens at Clark Park!!
8/23/2010 07:33:00 AM
Some of those South American soccer players have turn up missing on Sundays. Clark Park is the new soccer club HQ for the Ecuadorean Soccer Club. They keep their equipment trailer there 24/7
Soon maybe they will protest to have the name changed to Simon Bolivar park or Che Guevara Park
Has anyone seen Gator Bradley lately? Incarcerated or reptile food?
Anonymous said...
Naw, its the same gator. They lied about catching it the first time.
8/23/2010 03:13:00 PM
It was RWOC
Re: Kangaroo in 016
I remember multiple sightings of the kangaroo, and news of the kangaroo on television...
Don't worry the winter will kill it...
Anonymous said...
Don't worry the winter will kill it...
8/24/2010 09:33:00 AM
Or make it stronger....
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