A cold-shocked and lethargic four foot-long alligator was pulled from the lake at the southern end of Prospect Park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on Sunday, the New York Post reports.
Park officials, who took the beast to an animal hospital after capturing it at around 8:30 AM on Sunday, said the gator had to be an unwanted pet that grew too large and was dumped in the lake by its owner. Which is kind of the "no shit" conclusion seeing as how alligators aren't known to swim from their native habitats in the southeast and then crawl through miles of densely populated urban landscape to in order to relocate to a muddy duck pond in the middle of winter.