‘We Don’t Need Alligators in Pittsburgh’: Spate of Reptile Escapes Confounds Police

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Pittsburgh police got a call about a wandering alligator. Then another. Then another. 'It was almost like 'Groundhog Day.' '

With its densely wooded hillsides, Pittsburgh abounds in wildlife, including deer, raccoons, opossums and woodchucks. Until recently, however, the city’s police department wasn’t used to dealing with alligators.

When the first one was found, sunning itself on a trail near the Monongahela River on May 18, the 3-foot reptile was a novelty. The second specimen, found by a man walking his dog in the Beechview neighborhood June 6, seemed like an odd coincidence. That gator, about 5 feet long and hissing with apparent ill humor,...

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