NYC police get sassy on Twitter over alligator sighting

New Yorkers are known to have a quick, no nonsense-kind of humour. And in the city that never sleeps, the sarcastic quips don’t really ever stop.

When an alligator was seen casually crossing 9th Avenue in the Upper Manhattan area of Inwood, the local police did not waste time in announcing it on Twitter.

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But a short comment from journalist Lizzie O’Leary, calling the reptile a crocodile, rubbed the NYPD 34th Precinct the wrong way.

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The reptile was later confirmed to be an alligator and was taken into custody by Animal Care and Control, where he died unexpectedly a few days later.

According to media reports, the reptile was most likely a pet. Earlier in July, New York police rescued another alligator and nine boa constrictors from a man’s apartment in Brooklyn.