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The Alligator<br />
Myth: It<br />
is not true,<br />
sorry<br />
Urban Myth, but I still think it could just be…. It is from https://<br />
www.livescience.com/33322-alligators-crocodiles-new-york-citysewers.html<br />
That claim has been around for decades. The myth starts with a<br />
young boy who gets a baby alligator for his birthday and flushes it<br />
down the toilet, not knowing what else to do about it. Years later,<br />
as the story goes, that same boy reaches into a sewer grate for a lost<br />
baseball, and his arm is ripped off by his former pet, now monstrous<br />
and ravenous for blood.<br />
Trumping all myths, however, is the fact that alligators wouldn’t<br />
survive long in sewers.<br />
In a 1982 interview with The New York Times, sewer bureau spokesman<br />
John T. Flaherty said, “I could cite you many cogent, logical<br />
reasons why the sewer system is not a fit habitat for an alligator. But<br />
suffice it to say that, in the 28 years I have been in the sewer game,<br />
neither I nor any of the thousands<br />
of men who have worked<br />
to build, maintain or repair the<br />
sewer system has ever seen one,<br />
and a 10-foot, 800-pound alligator<br />
would be hard to miss.”<br />
… But I am not totally convinced!
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