Lunch was calling
NZPA-AP Freeport, Texas A 3-metre, 318 kg alligator held up traffic for about 45 minutes until the police finally roped the reptile and dragged it to a nearby river. The alligator crawled out of the Brazos River and over a levee and blocked a street in Freeport, a town of about 15,000. "The reptile wasn’t deterred by high-pressure water hoses wielded by firefighters,’’ said the police chief, Charles Bankston. “It also chewed up lumber that
police used to try to prod it back to the river.” The police said they believed the alligator had left the river because it was hungry and was stalking a dog it heard barking nearby. In Hamburg, West Germany, a hungry elephant which escaped from a visiting circus knocked at a bakery door with its trunk at dawn and was given fresh bread rolls. After the baker overcame his initial shock, he fed it freshly-baked rolls. The elephant’s owner described it as “harmless but hungry."
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Press, 25 July 1985, Page 6
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