$34,000?
- The bulk of the $33,649 cost for the weeklong effort to trap an alligator in Humboldt Park Lagoon came from city workers having to put up and and remove barricades to keep people away from the lagoon, with $2,500 going to the man who trapped the alligator, according to information released by Chicago officials to the Tribune on Wednesday.
The male, 5-foot-3 alligator, weighing 30 to 40 pounds, was captured July 16. Alligator trapper Frank Robb was brought in from Florida to replace a volunteer trapper who had spent several days trying to catch the alligator after it was first spotted on July 9.
The thing about those labor and equipment costs - if the city would have ignored it and simply stapled a few "Beware of Alligator" and "Danger - Blasting Zone" signs, the problem would have sorted itself out in short order.
The alligator hunter only got $2,500 plus $2,100 in expenses, plus a free Cubs game, all well deserved.
The alligator hunter only got $2,500 plus $2,100 in expenses, plus a free Cubs game, all well deserved.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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The amount did not include the 24 hour week long police detail...
But whose counting it only are pension money.
Come on now. Its expensive when you have a union driver, and a few other union lackeys in each truck spending a few hours of standing around looking at each other while the driver babysits i side the truck waiting for the next truck to arrive and then repeat for a few days.
Never let an opportunity to dole out taxpayers money most generously!!!!
The rest of the money went to the connected vendors for the Chicago Park District who provided the temporary fencing. Then they will kick back some money to the Democrats for their campaign funds.
They are lucky to have found a good ole boy to capture Chance the Snapper. He did not rake them over the coals for his services. They really wanted to hire Vanecko and Daley Pension Fund Fleecers and Gator Catchers, Inc. but there wasn't enough time to get all the players in place and make a big score.
Idiocy.
It was a small reptile, not a threat.
One, well aimed, police bullet would have solved the problem for pennies.
Or... some pet shop owner could have captured it for profit.
About $30,000 in sweet, sweet, overtime?
It could be worse, they could have used it to pay the revrunds for a pray-a-thon.
Clowerd and pivon in reverse would be the "resistance " stocking ponds like this with alligators and snakes.
34,000 × 10,000 just imagine.
ONLY got 2500.00? in loosy anna every 12 year old on the block would be out with a 100.00 bolt action. 22 rifle fighting over who gets to off the gator. at. 05 cents a round in bulk i figure it would cost about. . 10 cents to bring this guy to the deep fryer at the numerous stands that line the roads selling deep fried critter. in shitcaga this guy is hailed like some kind off delta operator and given the keys to the shitty. wait till godzilla rises from the muck in lake michigan mayor walleye will probably have to call in kim jun whatever his name is to nuke him and sign over lake michigan AND the cubs in payment ! talk about the gang that couldnt shoot straight, can city hall do anything right?
Why worry about $34,000. when the smellit investigation fiasco cost the city, county and state hundreds of thousands of dollars in manpower, resources, crimelab, courts, etc...it's still costing the taxpayers...but that's all the police fault too...Kimesha didn't do nuffin!!!
I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE THE CITY CAN BE BROKE WITH THE STELLAR MONEY MANAGEMENT & PLANNING!!!
If the city had NOT spent $34k... Would hipsters be able to get themed tattoos of the captured gator?
Chance The Snapper’s Legend Lives On As Fans Get Humboldt Gator Tattoos: ‘Everybody Loves It’
https://blockclubchicago.org/2019/07/25/chance-the-snappers-legend-lives-on-as-fans-get-humboldt-gator-tattoos-everybody-loves-it/
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They sell those rocks wholesale locally... Can't argue with the economic results overall. Just the price of doing business with Democrats. That is a major staple of the local commerce there, rock selling.
What is a few damaged cars and a hurt Sergeant now and again when the joy and warmth of the child buying his/her first rock is compared side by side. Seems to all even out...
What a joke. The cold winter weather coming would of ended his life.
With the exception of whatever overtime some idiot may have used this as an excuse to authorize, where, exactly are the 'extra costs'? Don't these people get paid for being at work, anyway, whether they're playing Words with Friends on their phones or they're putting up 'There be Alligators Here' signs?
Itemizing the cost may be a fun exercise, but no one was hired for signage or security or barricade placement. They all had jobs they were getting paid for and, gee, they actually did some work while AT work.
The alligator wrangler was the ONLY extraordinary cost incurred.
Funny, Alligator Bob couldn't do it how many days and this guy comes out to Chicago and catches it in less than 24hrs? lol. I think Bob was just looking for fame and attention. All he ever did was paddle around the Lagoon. How much did they pay Bob??? Wow...the Ricketts actually gave something away for free???
Hey y'all? that gator terrorizing communities up nawth? We would call it "bait" down here in Flawida.
That's another $29,000 that could have gone toward the pension shortfall. You should be angry at all your fellow city "workers" for the difficulties this city is in!
$5 in ammunition should do it with a good margin of error.
The south has Gators all over. They sometimes put up signs and people pay attention to what's around them, or they don't. No big deal.
I would to hear the stories the Gator Guy told his Good Ol Boys when he got back home. ♠️
They could have sold it to be harvested to recover some of the costs. I wish the would have. I like seeing my neighbor's heads exploding like they did in November 2016.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Troy Landry, LMFAO
Choot 'Em
Why so much?
It wasn’t that big of a deal. The gator was quite small. I’ve been in the water down in Florida with much larger ones.
you know it cost waaaaay more. the city is fibbing
They should have called a Florida Deputy, they handle those things on a daily basis, especially that small one. But someone made a good payday.
Years ago a DC would have just sent out 2 of his Tact Guys with Shotguns to do this job ... this City Government is just one gigantic money waster.
"The alligator hunter only got $2,500 plus $2,100 in expenses, plus a free Cubs game, all well deserved."
Plus he gets the meat (currently for sale online at $18.99 per pound) and the hide at around $10 per foot.
The should have brought in retired 3rd watch LT. DH... poor gator would have scampered away!!
Maybe if the city stopped paying unskilled labor like Streets and San $45/hr for work a trained monkey can do it wouldn’t have cost so much. You can thank the unions for raising the pay scale to astronomically ridiculous rates in exchange for the democrat vote.
A .22 LR would have cost 50 cents.
We offered makeshift depth charges or a pellet gun. Powers that be Couldn’t live with optics or gator guts flying around as two-legged resident’s guts are strewn across that park almost daily.
What a waste of money!
They should have just reached out to the gator pro from Florida right off the bat, or some other gator gatherer down south.
Would have saved themselves and everybody else the time and drama, not to mention about $30,000.
Should of hired a PRO from the beginning!!!!!
If they just posted signs for a job fair or a parenting seminar there it would have accomplished the same thing.
Make Jussie pay up
Alligator Bob was turned into a national sensation, and crowds gathered. The difference with the guy from Florida was he said he needed the crowds and noise moved away to catch the gator, and it worked.
Lemmer fake education opens doors
a small waste of money for a few days of fun for those of us tired of "community" shooting and killing stories.
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