Rumor of escaped zoo alligators is a fake
Niabi Zoo officials said a Facebook rumor was untrue that claimed this photo was an alligator that escaped from Niabi Zoo.
A rumor that spread like wildfire online had thousands of area residents wondering whether alligators escaped from Niabi Zoo in Coal Valley, Illinois.
It started with a Facebook post, claiming an alligator was spotted near the Rock River. Then, the story appeared to take on a life of its own.
There were posts from people claiming two alligators escaped from the zoo. There were posts from people claiming to have witnessed the gators being found in the Rock River.
One post of the photo had nearly 2,900 shares after it was posted on Facebook Sunday, June 9, 2013 by a man from Moline, Illinois. His comment on his own post alleged “This is one of the two that came up missing from Niabi Zoo a few weeks ago. The other also a female ( 10 ft), Is still missing according to the DNR.”
Niabi Zoo answered back with a Facebook post of their own, saying, “Don’t trust everything you see on Facebook (except this)! Our two alligators are much smaller than the photo that was posted, and they are both right where they belong. Also, an alligator of that size wouldn’t have made if for long this far north in the wild. Also, if you notice in the photo that was posted, it’s nowhere near a river despite the claim it had just emerged from the river.”
Two alligators in their habitat at Niabi Zoo 6-10-13 (WQAD Photo)
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Joel has left a new comment on your post "My Hometown Gets Wild Animal Scares Going Every Fe...":
Greggy,
YOU'RE the only alligator who's escaped from your hometown!
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Joel has left a new comment on your post "My Hometown Gets Wild Animal Scares Going Every Fe...":
I know you are, but what am I?
(Actually, since the town of my birth is Mankato, Minnesota, you'd probably think that a lot of people from there are alligators.)
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Joel has left a new comment on your post "My Hometown Gets Wild Animal Scares Going Every Fe...":
Ooops, sorry, I thought you had responded in kind. Didn't realize I was reading my own words in your post. Well, it's been a long couple of days. Das tut mir leid!
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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "My Hometown Gets Wild Animal Scares Going Every Fe...":
Classic! One of (W)ELS' own church growth UOJ apostates was responding in kind to his own childish quip...oh, my ribs hurt from laughing!
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GJ - That is why I copy comments into the post, so they cannot be erased.
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narrow-minded has left a new comment on your post "My Hometown Gets Wild Animal Scares Going Every Fe...":
Not tolerated here (from the Ichaslang Lexicon):
To Kilcrease
[v. kill-krees-e; n. kill-krees] verb, -creased, -creas·ing, noun
–verb (used with object)
1. to eliminate; to remove evidence of, confession, opinion, or error; decrease; take away from: to kilcrease the evidence.
Scholars are divided, but some think the word began to be used when a Roman Catholic adjunct instructor started erasing his own blog posts and comments.
Brett Meyer, Assistant Lexicographer. Daniel Baker, Contributing Lexicographer.
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Joel has left a new comment on your post "My Hometown Gets Wild Animal Scares Going Every Fe...":
Brett Baby,
I'm glad that I contributed to your comedic well-being. I laugh almost as hard when I read your posts about how it is proper to speak of universal atonement (which is received through faith)but heresy to speak of universal objective justification (which is received through faith).
I laugh until I cry.
