Alligator on loose in NY

24 August 2010 16:30 GMT

The almost 2ft reptile was seen crawling along Newtown Avenue near 29th Street much to the astonishment of onlookers.

Eye witness Elizabeth Ferguson said: "That's the craziest thing I've ever seen. He was really small, but mean looking."

Officers were called to the scene and they were able to detain it, tape its jaws hit and take it to a police station where it was collected by Animal Care and Control. The animal is now set to be moved to a reptile sanctuary.

Police spokesman James Duffy said: "It's a big mystery. It could have been dumped from a car or it could have come out of a sewer".

The sighting further fuels the urban legend they are colonies of alligators living in the New York City sewer system.

It is believed the sewer-dwelling gators are unwanted pets who grew too big for their owners to care for and were flushed down the toilet where they bred and thrived.

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JIHAD MONKEY! Taliban training primates

JIHAD MONKEY! Taliban training primates
by Leonard Greene
NEW YORK POST, Tuesday, July 13, 2010, p. 19

Monkey see, monkey kill.

Taliban terrorists have a secret weapon to destroy the infidel American enemy--monkey marksmen. According to The People's Daily in China, the Taliban in Afghanistan is "training monkeys to attack American troops."

The newspaper's bizarre story says the Islamic insurgents have drafted macaques and baboons to be all they can be, arming them with AK-47 rifles, machine guns, and trench mortars in the Waziristan tribal region near the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The monkeys, being rewarded with bananas and peanuts, are being turned into snipers at a secret Taliban training base. The newspaper days "photos have been widely spread by media agencies and Web sites across the world." One of those sites is the Pakistan Defense Forum, which has pictures of gun-toting monkeys, and makes the wild claim that a monkey-soldier program was first launched by the CIA in Vietnam.

"Today, the Taliban forces have given the American troops some of theie own medicine," The People's Daily said.

Sadly, this website does much to dispell the rumour

Did a mysterious beauty run wild with the kangaroos?

15 February 2009
The Sunday Times
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In 1971 a bunch of Australian kangaroohunters said they had glimpsed an unusual creature on the dusty Nullarbor plain in the southwest of Australia: a beautiful young blonde woman in animal skins, living in the wild among the kangaroos. They even had film footage of this "Nullarbor nymph", in case nobody believed them.

The world media flocked to this antipodean backwater, no doubt hoping to snare a rampant beauty like Raquel Welch in the film One Million Years B.C. (above) — but the nymph proved elusive.

Eventually the hunters confessed that they had cooked up the story over a few drinks, and had a local woman called Geneice Brooker dress up in roo skins for the pictures, just to wind up tourists and attract publicity to their tiny Nullarbor town of Eucla.

"It amazed us how it kept going, and we got bloody sick of it in the end," admitted one of the hoaxers, Laurie Scott — who ended up marrying Geneice the nymph impersonator. Despite the fact that she never existed, a sculpture of the Nullarbor nymph now cheers up visitors outside the Flinders Medical Centre in suburban Adelaide