Kinda funny local story to LA....
A while back there was a small lake not much bigger than a pond really....in Harbor City where a full size alligator was found to be living. Apparently a few birds were snatched off the shoreline in full view of some disbelieving park visitors. Anyway....the local press nicknamed the gator Reggie and they tried to catch him for about a year. They even brought in people from Florida and Louisiana familiar with trapping gators. After a while, the story seemed to go away because they couldn't catch him.
This year, a few months ago they got their gator and shipped him off to the LA Zoo. He had to go into quarantine for a couple of weeks and then opened in a new exhibit to great fanfare.
Yesterday it climbed a retaining wall and then scaled a 5 ft chain link fence and escaped it's enclosure. Zoo officials found Reggie within the general area before the zoo opened. That is some gator!
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