Police warn of 'meth-gators' due to flushing drugs down toilets
JULY 15, 2019, 4:12 PM
If you thought Sharknado didn't go far enough, the real world is picking up the slack.
A police department has taken to social media to warn people to stop flushing drugs down the toilet as it could lead to meth-gators.
Yes, meth-addicted alligators.
The Loretto (Tenn.) Police Department posted the warning to Facebook, saying drugs can affect wildlife after they're disposed of in the toilet.
"Folks…please don’t flush your drugs m’kay. When you send something down the sewer pipe it ends up in our retention ponds for processing before it is sent down stream." the post read.
"Furthermore, if it made it far enough we could create meth-gators in Shoal Creek and the Tennessee River down in North Alabama."
In other words, stay away from Shoal Creek and the Tennessee River down in North Alabama.
'Meth-gators': Police warn flushing drugs could create hyper-aggressive alligators
But Kent Vliet, an alligator biologist and the coordinator of laboratories in the department of biology at the University of Florida, said he has never once heard of an alligator on meth.
"I've worked with alligators for 40 years, and I generally can answer any question someone gives me about them. This one's throwing me for a loop," Vliet told NBC News.
Vliet, who is not a veterinarian, said in a study he participated in, in which gators were dosed with antibiotics, the animals had to be injected with the medication, rather than orally fed the drug, to see a sustained effect.
JULY 15, 2019, 4:12 PM
If you thought Sharknado didn't go far enough, the real world is picking up the slack.
A police department has taken to social media to warn people to stop flushing drugs down the toilet as it could lead to meth-gators.
Yes, meth-addicted alligators.
The Loretto (Tenn.) Police Department posted the warning to Facebook, saying drugs can affect wildlife after they're disposed of in the toilet.
"Folks…please don’t flush your drugs m’kay. When you send something down the sewer pipe it ends up in our retention ponds for processing before it is sent down stream." the post read.
"Furthermore, if it made it far enough we could create meth-gators in Shoal Creek and the Tennessee River down in North Alabama."
In other words, stay away from Shoal Creek and the Tennessee River down in North Alabama.
'Meth-gators': Police warn flushing drugs could create hyper-aggressive alligators
But Kent Vliet, an alligator biologist and the coordinator of laboratories in the department of biology at the University of Florida, said he has never once heard of an alligator on meth.
"I've worked with alligators for 40 years, and I generally can answer any question someone gives me about them. This one's throwing me for a loop," Vliet told NBC News.
Vliet, who is not a veterinarian, said in a study he participated in, in which gators were dosed with antibiotics, the animals had to be injected with the medication, rather than orally fed the drug, to see a sustained effect.
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