Iguana Chase in Brooklyn

2003_8_iguana.jpgA two-foot long iguana made its way in Brooklyn yesterday, trying to mind its own business, rummaging through garbage, but a worried resident called 911. Then, as the Post reports "full cast of cops, emergency services and nosy neighbors descended on the scene and a Keystone Kops chase ensued." Police chased the iguana through backyards, and the iguana escaped up a telegraph pole. (Telegraph? Not telephone?) The iguana finally came down after being sprayed with a hose, and now has a home in Long Island.

Ah, Gothamist likes chase stories with strange animals and happy endings. How to keep an iguana.

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i think it's sad that the iguana got caught and shipped off to long island- how would you feel if you were out for a walk in the neighborhood and ended up getting deported? i think we should start a fund to return it to brooklyn.

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