Weirdest thing happened today April 1st

@raydene (9871)
United States
April 1, 2008 9:44am CST
I get up each morning and go down to the basement to check if the wood furness needed it's breakfast. This morning I was looking in the furness when I heard something behind me I turned around and an alligator was laying there amoung the piles of wood that the boys had thrown in yesterday and I realized that one of my sewer pipes was broken. Where do you think it came from? And what do I do now? oxxoxoxoxoxoxoxoHELPoxxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
1 Apr 08
I strongly suggest you buy yourself a crocodile, I think you can get them from the local pet shop they are reasonably priced and usually they find their own food, rather than having to provide it for them, then if you take your crocodile and introduce him, or her! to the alligator then they'll occupy each other and won't bother you any more my friend! Do you know if the alligator is male or female? I think crocodiles are easier to breed than alligators but don't take my word for it. I can give you a link about crocodiles as pets if you need it ;0)
@raydene (9871)
• United States
1 Apr 08
Well Son I have left the pipe open in hopes of the rest of the family dropping by. I just do not know how he swam in the frozen lakes to get here! lol lol oxoxxoxoxoxoxo
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
5 Apr 08
Thanks for best response ma, how's the alligator doing now? Have you named him? xxx
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@mummymo (23706)
1 Apr 08
This is an April Fools prank isn't it Mom? Course it is - last thing I would be doing if I had come face to face with an alligator in my basement would be to calmsly sit down and type at the puter! Love you! xxx
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@mummymo (23706)
1 Apr 08
We all know MOm that you would give anyone a helping hand when they need it and if he is prepared to sort out the wood in the burner then all the better! Silly me! xxx
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@raydene (9871)
• United States
1 Apr 08
Now Darling You know your Momma is cool, calm, and collected in an emergency. Besides he said he would be happy to put wood in the fire if he could stay for a day or two! He had a fight with his roommate and needed some space! oxoxxoxoxoxo
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• United States
1 Apr 08
Yeah Right! and I had a polar bear in my backyard. Happy Fools Day!
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• United States
1 Apr 08
I don't mind him staying but he is so afraid of my chihuahuas I'm afraid they will attack him.!!!
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@raydene (9871)
• United States
1 Apr 08
Wow Polar Bear? Nice Sweets is he staying? What is his story? oxxoxoxoxoxoxo
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
1 Apr 08
I think you are trying to fun us...I don't think alligators do well in a climate that requires a wood furnace. If you had said skunk or squirrel...i would believe it. Actually yesterday we caught a squirrel on our shed resting in the sun, he was laying down with one paw hanging over the edge...wish I had taken a picture of it.
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
1 Apr 08
Please tell you that you went and got a tetanus and rabies shots...and you are not just here talking to us because you got lucky? I had bats in my house ...that is scarier I think then squirrels.
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@raydene (9871)
• United States
1 Apr 08
Hi Hon Last spring we had a baby squirrel in our house. It took me 2 days to catch the little bugger. He bit me and scratched the crap outta me... little monkey...but he was sooooo cute. When i got him outside and let him go he ran a couple of step then just turned and looked at me like he was trying to figure out why he was alive and free! xoxoxoxoxoxo
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@raydene (9871)
• United States
1 Apr 08
The last tetnus shot I got almost killed me. I am allergic and can never get another. Little fellow must have been healthy the way he fought me...lol oxxoxoxoxo
@Grandmaof2 (7579)
• Canada
2 Apr 08
I feel a tug on my leg. I think it's April fools day!!!
@raydene (9871)
• United States
2 Apr 08
Doll I never touched your leg! But You did get it pulled. Honey Me thinks it was me gator being bad! oxxoxoxoxoxo
• China
2 Apr 08
agree
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@ellie333 (21016)
1 Apr 08
Too late for an April Fool as I'm in UK and if it is GOOD ONE if not scream get the H*ll out of there and give whichever department deals with these creatures a call. LOL Ellie :D
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@raydene (9871)
• United States
1 Apr 08
Sorry Sweets but it's still time to make a fool outta someone here in the US of A. I can not believe no one got me! he he he ha ha lol oxxoxoxoxoxo
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@raydene (9871)
• United States
1 Apr 08
Well Sweets In the past year I have found I was the biggest fool of all and I want company...lol oxoxxoxoxo
@ellie333 (21016)
1 Apr 08
Have fun with it, enjoy. Happy Aprils Fools Day. Ellie :D
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@weemam (13372)
1 Apr 08
I hope this is an april fool sweetheart or I will be really worried about you :) :) xx
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@weemam (13372)
1 Apr 08
Will you send him to me in Scotland when he is finished painting please :) :) xx
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@raydene (9871)
• United States
1 Apr 08
Hi Sis No worries Doll He just dropped by to paint my kitchen and install a new sink... He is tired of the warm weather down south! lol oxxoxoxoxoxo
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@Polly1 (12645)
• United States
1 Apr 08
This has got to be an April fools joke, if it isn't I think I would have done something in my pants. I can't imagine turning around and seeing an alligater. I am aswering this thru my email, so I haven't read any of the other responses. I just responded to an April fools joke from Lori, she got me too.
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@raydene (9871)
• United States
2 Apr 08
Hi Polly Sweet I have turned and seen a gator before but it wasn't in the cold noth-country! lol xoxoxoxoxox
@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
7 Apr 08
I never did respond to this, and I guessed it might be an April Fool's day joke, so when I get out of my e-mail and over to the whole discussion, I will be very surprised if it is not a joke.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
4 Apr 08
call the animal control? or is this an april fool's joke.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
6 Apr 08
That is weird that an alligator would be laying there in the pile like that. No telling where it came from. I wander if the alligator had something to do with the broken sewer pipe? That is very strange.
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@shell52 (144)
• United States
2 Apr 08
I wonder, are you sure you didn't go to Scottland in your dreams and spend the night at the bar? Hee Hee Happy April Fools! I know better cause it's just too cold. We have ice on the ground and I think that is enough to keep the varmit in Florida cause his belly would be awful cold crawling around. I got a e card this a.m. that when it came up said this is the end of the internet. My heart nearly stopped because I though I had made a mistake opening it. And as I read on it said now you have to get paper and pencil and write letters. That jump started my heart again. It was a scary thing at first. Joke was on me.
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@raydene (9871)
• United States
2 Apr 08
Well we have named him Al and he will be leaving now that it is April 2nd. He really only came for the one day. Ha lol Ha He xoxoxoxoxoxoxo
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
2 Apr 08
Hehe..April's Fools to you too raydene..great sense of humor Actually I would think if you had the room a gator would make a nice pet...a watchgator
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@raydene (9871)
• United States
2 Apr 08
Hi Doll I do have this huge basement. He could have a grand time playing king of the wood piles.. I'd have to warn the cats to stay upstairs from now on.lol xoxoxoxoxoxxoxo
@BYOLA2871 (4371)
• South Africa
2 Apr 08
if your enviroment is swampy obviously the alligator came in from the swamps,thanks to God that no one was hurt what would have happened if it was the children that went in there,please just try to make sure you fix the sewer pipes,it could have been washed up the pipes by heavy flooding
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
3 Apr 08
Oh Goodness Ray I do hope that you have it sorted and got the not wanted Visitor to leave Did you find out how he got in ???????? xxxxxxxxxxx