See Ya Later Alligator

This Article is Originally from The Pioneer

Just picture it. Today is the day that you have been waiting for since school began. This year you are in the fourth grade and you can bring your dad to school and show him off on Bring Your Dad to School day. You have been bragging for weeks to all the kids about how cool of a job your dad has, after all how many parents can be a wildlife officer that gets to work with wild animals like alligators and fight them and stuff?

Your dad walks in the class room and asks the teacher if the class can come to the parking lot and see his wild life truck for his presentation. So your teacher instructs the class to make their way to the door quietly, as your father will walk the class to the parking lot to drool over his wild life truck. You can barely wait, you are so excited.

After you get outside, you start hearing your classmates talk about how cool your dad is. Then your dad informs the class that he has an extra surprise. “Today class I have brought with me a real life alligator, to give you an idea of the animals I work with and how dangerous my job is. I will have to ask that you all back away from the truck. After you get a back I will drop the tailgate so you all can see the alligator.”

How great is this? Your dad has gone above the call of duty. He brought a real live alligator to school. You are sure to gain some popularity points. Then your dad drops the tailgate and you hear, “Ohh no, where did he go?! Nobody panic.”

The good news is that officials from Panama City Florida believe that they have found the alligator that escaped from the wildlife officer who brought the animal to his child’s school for show and tell.

Stan Kirkland, spokesman for the Florida wildlife commission, says officials think that the 5-foot alligator is in a Panhandle pond.

Searchers had to comb through a wooded area surrounding the school after the alligator jumped out of the man’s vehicle with its mouth taped shut.

Kirkland says alligators have “amazing” jumping ability and that made it easy for it to escape.

The great news is no one got hurt. The bad news is your dad is no longer welcome at school and from this day forward you are referred to as “Lacoste.” You dread having to wear polo shirts to school and behind your back your hear people talking as if they are the crocodile hunter.

Until next time-BC