By Ben Cost, NY Post, Published May 11, 2023
New York might not have those infamous “alligators in the sewer” — but Florida has the real thing.
A work crew in Oviedo, Florida proved the NYC urban legend was a Sunshine State reality after discovering an 5-foot gator residing in a sludge-filled pipe.
Footage of the scaly subterranean terror is currently stirring up a crapstorm on the City of Oviedo City Administration Facebook page.
“Just another reason not to go wandering down into the stormwater pipes!” a spokesperson said of the new underground sensation, which was spotted Friday during a routine pothole inspection.
A public works team had dispatched a robot equipped with a camera to get to the root of why a cluster of craters kept appearing on the road above, according to a Jam Press report.
The workers soon found something far more terrifying lurking beneath the surface.
“On Friday’s inspection, as you’ll see in the video, they came across a five-foot alligator!” the city organization exclaimed in the now-viral post.
The mortifying moment was captured in video footage that recalled the enduring big-city myth that inspired the 1980 B-movie “Alligator,” and was further popularized by scene-stealer Drew Barrymore in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 sci-fi classic “E.T.” (But is it really a metropolitan myth? Some New Yorkers might disagree after witnessing a gator crawl out of a drain in Queens back in 2010.)
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