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On the corner of a quiet New Orleans street in the aftermath of Ida there are fences down, roofs are damaged, garbage bags are piling up, but theres something sending shock waves through the neighborhood a dead alligator in a dumpster.
Theres a gator in the garbage, said Naomi Gadinsky, who lives on Perrier Street.
She went on to say, This morning I woke up and it was business as usual, then my husband said theres a large dead gator in the dumpster across the street from our house.
Gadinsky is baffled as to how the gator got in the garbage. She wonders if the gator was roaming the streets and someone shot and killed it, or did someone have it from a fishing trip and then disposed of it in the dumpster?
https://www.wate.com/news/massive-dead-alligator-found-hanging-from-dumpster-shocks-new-orleans-residents/
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(12,047 posts)Ligyron
(7,592 posts)Ill be amazed if it wasnt skinned.
Hell, with the way food prices and availability are going, Im surprise it wasnt eaten yet.
FirefighterJo
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Celerity
(42,666 posts)flotsam2
(162 posts)The gator was dumpster diving during the flooding and accidentally became wrapped in a tarp someone disposed of and suffocated?
LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)Generally animal control services handle carcasses, but I wonder if animal control is functional right now?
Tarp was obviously used to drag alligator to the dumpster.
It is illegal to kill an alligator without a permit, but this one may have died of natural causes or was "too close to someone's home".