Alligator resurfaces in Los Angeles lake

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May 1, 2007, 20:31 GMT

Los Angeles - Reggie the alligator has resurfaced in a Los Angeles lake, 18 months after he disappeared when teams of alligator hunters tried to catch him, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday. Crowds of onlookers gathered to catch a glimpse of the reclusive 2-metre-long reptile in Lake Machado in the south-east of the city, as officials worked on a plan to capture Reggie and transfer him to a zoo. In the meantime workers have put up some fencing and have posted warning signs all around the lake. There is also 24-hour security at the lake. Prior to the new sighting Monday, Reggie had not been seen since 2005 when he evaded teams of crocodile hunters hired to snag him. Los Angeles officials had even hoped to get Steve Irwin to track down the elusive animal, but that plan was scrapped after the legendary animal specialist was killed by a stingray off Australia's Great Barrier Reef last September. Reggie is reported to have been dumped in the lake by a former Los Angeles police officer after he grew too large for a backyard pool where he was being kept. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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TabithaMay 2nd, 2007 - 00:59:04

First off why in the world did a L.A. police officer have a alligator for a pet. Talk about dumb. What in the world would make some keep a alligator knowing that it is going to grow duh! Having a wild pet not just any kind but a alligator come on. Then you realize oh its getting too big to fit in the pool, so lets go throw it in the lake knowing that some people go the lakes. Also kids that go places most of the time places that they shouldn't or wonder. Talk about dumb what if someone or some child would have came across it and would have got hurt real bad or even died, because of some dumb person letting it go in the lake. I just think that there were other way about letting a alligator go to whom or even were?? Then being a police officer what kind of careless choice was that on his be half. I just think and his a police officer and how did that happen????? Scaryyyyy if he made a careless choice in this case what about other times uh???

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JaseMay 2nd, 2007 - 01:27:20

ugh shut up idi ot!!!

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RenéMay 2nd, 2007 - 07:38:09

Yeah! Shut up Tabitha!

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BillMay 2nd, 2007 - 11:47:23

So the police officer 'grew too large for the backyard pool where he was being kept' - well I guess the Alligator would dump him and go off somewhere else

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Bring the hot sauceMay 2nd, 2007 - 18:10:01

Send some Cajuns in there with a twelve pack - They'll be grilling old Reggie by sundown. That is if Tabitha doesn't mind.

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SuzyMay 3rd, 2007 - 07:28:55

Wonder what he's been eating all this time. Anyone living in the area missing any dogs or cats? Pot bellied pigs? Iguanas? Ponies?

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SuzyMay 3rd, 2007 - 07:28:55

Wonder what he's been eating all this time. Anyone living in the area missing any dogs or cats? Pot bellied pigs? Iguanas? Ponies?

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nedMay 3rd, 2007 - 11:08:23

colors make good bait