Diary of Reggie, Alligator at Large, Entry #5
November 13, 2007My apologies for not posting for a while. I’m just trying to get used to captivity.
Like my late brother Poncho, I’m practicing watchful waiting. I’m not very big yet, but maybe I’ll get there on the slop they feed me. Like the Red Hot Chili Peppers song Cabron (I am a tough LA banger, just like them.) “I am small but I am strong, I’ll get it on with you.”
They say alligators are stupid. Not as stupid as people. Some guy breaks into cars on an Indian reservation behind the inevitable casino, the cops chase him and he dives into a pond to escape. Not very smart so far–worse because he didn’t “read the signs that warned of the danger of live alligators in the pond.”
To add insult to injury, they said, “Some gators have a nasty disposition and he was a nasty gator. He seemed to have no fear of people which indicates that he was fed.”
Now the big guy, Poncho, has to die for doing what comes naturally to an alligator. You jump in the pond, I eat you, end of story.