Police find 2 alligators, monitor lizard in London, Ontario home

[CougarKing]

You don't see that everyday- especially in Ontario.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090422/koddities/alligators_discovered

Police in London, Ont., discover two alligators during search of home

Wed Apr 22, 11:32 PM

By The Canadian Press


LONDON, Ont. - Police executing a search warrant at a home in London, Ont., got a shock Wednesday when they discovered a pair of alligators.


Judy Foster of the London Humane Society says one of the American alligators measures nearly two metres in length, while the other is a little more than 50 centimetres long.


"The adult male American alligator can grow to a length of almost 4.5 metres," Foster said. "We know that they can move slowly, but they certainly have the ability to lunge, and the agents were able to see that first hand."


The humane society is not to equipped to remove or house alligators, so an expert was called in from southern Ontario to handle the delicate job, Foster said.


The alligators, along with a monitor lizard, an iguana and a tortoise, were all removed from the home after a veterinarian determined the animals were in distress.


Foster said it was obvious the conditions the animals were kept in were inadequate.


"You can't give the same space to a Great Dane that you do for a chihuahua," she said. "Likewise an alligator and a tortoise."


London police also located a small amount of marijuana and a martial-arts weapon known as nunchuks in the home.


Raymond Scott, 39, and Irving Stelmacovitch, 34, both of London, Ont., are charged with possession of marijuana and possession of a prohibited weapon.


Charges have not yet been laid in relation to the animals.

 

[1feral1]

Hell, I can find these locally.

;D

OWDU

EDIT: Insert croc, delete gator

 

[mariomike]

Hell, I can find these locally.
EDIT: Insert croc, delete gator

Criky! ( sp? )

 

[1feral1]

Here is some local friends.....

1st, an Australian estuarian salt water croc taken in a river, he's about 3 metres long, and the latter, my mate Paul, who caught this huge monitor known as a goanna. Nasty infections if they scratch or bite you.

Local crocs are at Fraser Island, Kin-Kin, and even to my south. This is normally not the case, but all the recent flooding, along with them being protected, has been pushing the population south with big males seeking new boundries, as these beasts are territorial.

Recent crocodile deaths in Australia  http://www.smh.com.au/national/recent-crocodile-deaths-in-australia-20090411-a3b2.html
April 11, 2009
April 2009 - Twenty-year-old local man taken by a crocodile while swimming with his brother at night in the Daly River about 150km south of Darwin.

March 2009 - Eleven-year-old Briony Goodsell taken by a crocodile while swimming with her seven-year-old sister and two friends, aged 10 and 12, in Black Jungle Swamp on the outskirts of rural Darwin.

February 2009 - Five-year-old Jeremy Doble killed in the Daintree River in far north Queensland after following his dog into the river where his parents run a tour company.

September 2008 - Vietnam veteran Arthur Booker, 62, taken while checking crab pots at a holiday campsite on the Endeavour River near Cooktown in far north Queensland.

July 2006 - Eight-year-old girl killed by a five-metre crocodile near the Northern Territory coastal community of Maningrida.

September 2005 - Darwin man Russell August Butel, 55, taken while diving off Coburg Peninsula.

September 2005 - Briton Russell Harris, 37, attacked by a four-metre crocodile while snorkelling off the remote Groote Eylandt, in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

August 2005 - Fisherman Barry Jefferies killed when a crocodile grabbed his arm and pulled him from a canoe at Lakefield National Park, in Cape York.

December 2003 - Brett Mann, 22, attacked after wading into the Finniss River, 80km from Darwin.

October 2002 - German tourist Isabel von Jordan, 23, killed while swimming with other tourists at a croc-infested waterhole at Kakadu National Park.

So, think twice when reading the no swimming signs, ha! They are for real.

OWDU

 

[1feral1]

Kin-Kin's sighting

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25341161-12377,00.html

Crocodile Hunter dad says Kin Kin croc likely to be saltieFont Size: Decrease Increase Print Page: Print April 16, 2009
Article from:  Australian Associated Press
A SEARCH is under way for a crocodile spotted in the flood-ravaged Sunshine Coast town of Kin Kin.

Mother of three, Michelle Palmer, spotted the crocodile on Tuesday morning from her yard in a small one-metre deep creek in Kin Kin.

The area has been ravaged by floodwaters in the past two weeks, with up to 200mm of rain falling in nearby areas on Monday night.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) met with Ms Palmer last night, and a spokesman said they were treating the sighting seriously.

"It was called in by a lady, our people spoke to her and they're taking the report seriously,'' he said.

"There was no sighting of any crocodile last night. They were searching until about midnight with spotlights,'' the spokesman said.

The spokesman said the Department of Environment and Resource Management would take up the search again today.

Bob Irwin, father of the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin, told ABC radio he believed if a crocodile was in Kin Kin it would be the more aggressive saltwater variety.

Fraser Island's sightings  http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/australian-news/5509097/latest-fraser-croc-sighting-investigated/

The Department of Environment says it is investigating another crocodile sighting off Fraser Island in south-east Queensland.

A three-metre crocodile was reportedly seen at Kingfisher Bay Resort on the western side of the island on Thursday.

The department says an aerial survey of the area found no evidence of crocodile activity, but boat surveys will continue this week and warning signs will be erected.

Earlier this year, rangers placed three traps in waters off the south-west end of the island to try to catch a three-metre crocodile seen in the area.

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