DC man catches alligator at The Wharf

Imagine Phoenix Norwood’s shock when he heard there was a four-foot alligator swimming among the many boats at The Wharf Marina in Southwest D.C.

“At first I heard about it … then I started looking for it, and I actually saw it twice,” Norwood instructed WTOP.

The 23-year-old resident of The Wharf thought the gator was pretend at first.

Then, it began swimming. That’s when he grabbed a dip internet and fished it out Thursday.

“If I had just let it be on its own, it would have probably swam away again, and authorities were about like 10, 15 minutes away at the time,” Norwood mentioned. “I had to get it at that point in time. I probably should have had shoes on, though.”

Norwood is a reptile fanatic and an avid fossil collector.

“I got some crocodile teeth and all that stuff, but I don’t really have experience with live gators,” Norwood mentioned. “This is definitely a first for me.”

Norwood held the reptile till officers with D.C. animal management arrived to safe it. They will work with a gaggle to relocate the animal to a extra acceptable atmosphere.

Hopefully, far-off.

Where did it come from? There’s loads of hypothesis, however authorities guess it was somebody’s pet that was launched into the Washington Channel just lately.

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