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The things one sees in Central Park. Staten Island resident Victor Alexandria was strolling around the Heckesher Playground, but caught people's attention with his company: a three-foot caiman alligator on a leash, 6 foot Burmese python in a bag, and a cockatiel on his shouler. Naturally, a concerned citizen called the police, who approached Alexandria with animal control. Alexandria claimed he was just walking through the park with his wife and kids, but police suspect he intended use them as props, to sell picture opportunities with a snake or alligator. Animal Control field director Mike Pastore said, "It's definitely not a good idea to have a python and a caiman loose in Central Park." Alexandria got a summons, but the snake and caiman are at Animal Control in Brooklyn.
Gothamist wants to remind people that making your zoo portable is not only dangerous but it's also more likely that you'll be caught for having an illegal animal. Imagine if Antoine Yates walked his tiger around - that'd be chaos. Or what is Orlando Lopez trotted out his six monkeys - that'd be a lot of monkey crap flying around.
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Whoa, I've run into that very guy on the F train a few times. (Even at rush hour, you tend to notice a guy with a 2-foot-tall bird riding on his shoulder.)
I saw this guy in the park right before he got caught yesterday. My company had an emergency evacuation drill and the meeting place was a spot in the park. As they walked by his wife was saying, "Snakie, not so tight," and she was trying to uncoil the snake a little from around her waist. We all cracked jokes about it. Apparently we weren't the only ones.
My question is does the caiman get cold? I don't think caimans are native to the Northeast. Yesterday was sunny, so I guess it was a good day to walk the caiman, but today would be a bad choice.
I've seen this guy too. He was hanging out with his brood about two weeks ago over at the lower part of the park, watching people get their caricatures drawn. Seemed odd and my first reaction was that he was selling photos but no proof of it and didn't see anything to that affect. Hey, maybe he is just an odd guy. There are a few in New York after all.