Looks like the Gators have gotten smarter.

[Dodecalypse]

NEW CASTLE, Pa. – A four-foot alligator rescued in an abandoned school on fire in western Pennsylvania may have also started the blaze. North Beaver Township officials are not identifying the owner of the former elementary school that burned Thursday afternoon near New Castle, about 40 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

But they said the man was living with a menagerie of animals in the building, including the alligator, about 70 rabbits and unspecified "aquatic animals." The Pennsylvania Game Commission was involved in caring for the animal.

Fire Chief Paul Henry said the building's owner believes the alligator started the fire by knocking over a portable heater. Firefighters removed the animal, but only after taping its mouth shut.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090307/ap_on_fe_st/odd_alligator_arson;_ylt=AtPNEpmkba1m6GR7sopMA.nti BIF

What really gets me is the "unspecified aquatic animals". This leads me to believe that he was one of those mad scientists inbreeding animals to do his bidding.

[Death Ray Commander]

Darnit, I told him to use the Indonesian island facility if he wanted to toy with nature. There's a Reason we release a "newly discovered, long thought to be extinct" specie ever four of five years, so things like this don't ever happen. They just think "Oh cool, a newly discovered alligator in a protected and untouched part of Indonesia" and go about their business.

Still, State-side technology will never catch up with us, and here's were I segue to actually being on-topic.

I was listening to Bob and Tom the other day, and it turns out that authorities in America are researching the use of magnets to keep alligators out of residential areas: alligators home into their own homes, and so that is the first place they go to when they get relocated, completely nullifying animal control efforts.

They hope a sort of magnetic headphone can confuse and dispel the gators from residential areas post-relocation.


A shame. Those very homing abilities are what make alligators such prime candidates for mutant lizardmen hybrids.

[Crash]

Great. As if gators weren't deadly enough, now they're smart enough to start fires. I think they might soon become the mutant lizard men you speak of, without even having to mutate that much. What I want to know is why the alligator never went after the 70 bunnies. Then again, that would have been a tough decision for me. Free food, or start a random fire. Decisions Decisions.

[I'm not Goro this time]

Oh wow.

Gators? Bunnies? Unspecified aquatic animals?

Jesus tap-dancing Christ! Whoever got ahold of those must have issues.

[Chunky Monkey]

I live near there....

[Freet]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090307/ap_on_fe_st/odd_alligator_arson;_ylt=AtPNEpmkba1m6GR7sopMA.nti BIF

What really gets me is the "unspecified aquatic animals". This leads me to believe that he was one of those mad scientists inbreeding animals to do his bidding.

Per Southpark's Dr. Mephesto, an expert in such matters, DNA manipulation can produce 4 assed animals. But inbreeding? That sounds kinda out there.