Colorado-Bound Live Gator Chews Through Shipping Carton; Hilarity Ensues

Post Office workers find Colorado-bound live ‘gator

MILWAUKEE (AP) - A four-foot alligator will be at an area domestic animal control facility for the next week after it chewed its way out of a shipping carton at the Milwaukee Post Office.

”It had bit through the corner of the box, and the nose … was sticking out with its teeth hanging out,” postal employee Jennifer Hejdak said Friday.

Officials said someone had put the alligator in a carton to ship it from Milwaukee to Colorado.

Workers tried to tape the box closed early Friday, but the alligator bit it open and came out.

”One of the guys picked it up by its tail and threw it in the hamper,” Hejdak said.

The alligator will be at Milwaukee area domestic animal control facilities for a week before being shipped to a sanctuary in Florida.

Milwaukee station WTMJ-TV reported Friday night that a Marquette University student mailed the alligator. He told a reporter he had the creature at his residence for about a week before deciding it had to go.

The incident was being reviewed by postal officials.