Another alligator has roamed loosely in a public place this time at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport CNN reported Monday.
"I looked, I said, 'What?' Tineka Walker told CNN affiliate WBBM-TV. Walkers was patrolling Terminal 3 when a passenger pointed her to the animal located beneath the escalator.
"(I figured) somebody was messing with us," Anthony Oliver, a Chicago police officer who was notified of the incident by Walker told WBBM.
The animal, which measured 18 inches was discarded with a broom, and dustpan, and given to the Chicago Herpetological Society for further examination.
"What if a little kid grabbed this, thinking it was a toy? That could do a nasty job. The patterns on an alligator are as unique as your fingerprints," Bob Bavirsha, a reptile rescuer with the society told CNN. "We can actually match this band right here with that band right there."
The animal was reportedly brought to the airport, and left on the side of the escalator by passengers before going through security.
"They probably realized they couldn't take it through checkpoint, and just let him go, but, oh my God!" Walker told CNN.
A man with tattoos on the Blue Line train, which passes O'Hare is pictured on Twitter holding the creature.
The animal is expected to be relocated in a reptile park after it gets treated for not receiving the right amount of food.
A six-foot long alligator resided near the front door of a Florida Wal-Mart last week ABC News reported.
"It was a nice size gator, just chilling," shopper Robin Watkins who was in the store with her kid told CBS television station WKMG.
Customers were welcomed by the animal early last Sunday, just after midnight. The store remained open throughout the ordeal, and the surrounding vicinity was blocked off by the Apopka Police Department therefore reducing the size of the crowd which had formed to view the spectacle, and take pictures.
Store employees eventually secured and locked the location's front door so the gator would not come into the store, and instead follow the commands of responding officers who attempted to lead him away from the business.
However, the alligator went off to the back of the store until it was found by a "trapper" or animal control professional, who was brought in to subdue the animal. No injuries were reported.
