More on alligators in sewers

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among other things.

It was at another open manhole, about nine miles away on East 123rd
Street in Manhattan, that teenagers shoveling snow one February day in
1935 did, in fact, see one in a city sewer, or said they saw one. They
pulled up a sickly, 125-pound, 8-foot alligator with some clothesline
they borrowed from a nearby stove shop, only to kill it with their
shovels after it snapped at one of the boys.

“Alligator Found In Uptown Sewer,” read the headline in The New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/nyregion/17sewer.html?ref=nyregion