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South Jersey Man Finds Gator on Side the Road

No explantion where 4-foot, 60-to-80-pound beast in cage came from

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 8, 2008 4:28 PM CDT

(Newser) – A South Jersey man spotted something unusual on his way to work yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports: a caged alligator on the side of a road. Fred Schubert decided to help out the 4-foot, 60-to-80-pound beast, loading the cage into his pickup. After calling several wildlife agencies, an official came to Schubert’s and collected the animal—but offered no explanation of how it’d gotten lost.

An alligator swims through a canal in the Florida Everglades, July 1, 2008.
An alligator swims through a canal in the Florida Everglades, July 1, 2008.   (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
A large American Alligator suns itself on a bank along a canal near the space shuttle Atlantis Tuesday Dec. 4, 2007 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
A large American Alligator suns itself on a bank along a canal near the space shuttle Atlantis Tuesday Dec. 4, 2007 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.   (AP Photo)
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