Something was going on...
There is a large open sewer that runs through the community, and the community is located right next to a trash dump. Apparently the croc came up through a river connected to the sewer. What was truly amazing is that some of the men in the community hopped right in a wrestled the croc out of the sewer. They thought it was too dangerous to have it loose in the community and the police or animal control certainly doesn’t go into Riverton, so they had to take matters into their own hands. It looks small in the pictures, but this thing was huge!! Huge and angry!
The sewer that runs through the community, from where the croc came...
I was as curious as anyone else, and ran over to take pictures. Some people were like, “Who’s the whitey mon” (even though I'm a woman I'm still a whitey mon, apparently) but most people were too excited by the croc. I asked the center manager what they were going to do with the croc. “Are they going to eat it?” Boy, did I ever get ribbed for asking that! Apparently crocodile meat is not the delicacy in Jamaica it is in Southern Africa! In my defense, the croc was being strung up right in front of Jerky’s Jerk Center! Would have been convenient...
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I like this post. It reminds me of South Louisina. This summer there were 2 widely reported stories on gators in the New Orleans area. One was humorous, the other tragic. A boy lost his arm to a gator while swimming. Another was a prank in which someone left a 'gator on an elevated bridge. leaving traffic-goers bewildered and bemused. However, my mom likes to feed her leftovers to gators, which I consider to be really really dumb, especially since she has very poor vision. On the other hand, she's a little skinny for gator bait.
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