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    Mystery alligator captured in woman’s garden

    UPI – Animal control officers in Illinois were in disbelief when they responded to a call from an elderly resident and discovered a three-and-a-half-foot alligator was indeed wandering her garden.

    Virginia Tyus, 87, was watering the flowers in the front yard of her Decatur home in the United States when she spotted something that prompted her to call her son-in-law, Craig Stevens Sr.

    “She called and said, ‘Well I see the biggest snake I’ve ever seen,’” Stevens told WAND-TV.

    “Then she said, ‘Well it looks like an alligator.’”

    Stevens, who was attending his grandson’s baseball game with family members, said his mother-in-law’s report was difficult to believe.

    “Everyone was just rolling in their chairs and like ‘Yeah, OK,’” he recalled.

    Stevens arrived at the home and immediately called animal control.

    “I walked up through the roses and I looked and that’s all I needed to see,” Stevens said.

    Macon County Animal Control was equally difficult to convince.

    “Our initial reaction is disbelief and assuming it was a stuffed alligator that looks real,” animal control Administrator Ron Atkins said.

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