MOBILE, Ala. (AP) 鈥� An Alabama apartment complex was paid a visit by an unusual guest as children were coming home from school Monday afternoon: an alligator that crawled out of a storm drain.
Kenisha Miller and her boyfriend, Anthony Patterson, told that they were driving home when they stopped to do a double-take in a downtown Mobile neighborhood.
鈥淲e saw a gator coming out of the drainage hole, and I was like, 鈥業s that really a gator?鈥欌�� Miller said.
The couple tried to get police and wildlife officials to the scene quickly as the reptile inched toward the complex.
A school bus was dropping off kids not even 50 feet (15.2 meters) down the street. Miller and Patterson said other people were initially oblivious to the gator.
But a crowd soon formed, with some neighborhood residents trying to record the surprising scene.
鈥淭hey were just as shocked as we were,鈥� Patterson said. 鈥淣ever (seen) nothing like this, in the hood anyway.鈥�
Wildlife officials safely captured the alligator and took it away.
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