Date: May 09, 2004 - 10:19 AM
From The Associated Press
POSTED: 8:50 a.m. EDT April 13, 2004
SYDNEY, Australia -- Would you upset an alligator named Mister Cranky Pants? Some thieves chanced it, but apparently soon regretted it.
The 4-year-old gator was stolen from a reptile park north of Sydney during the weekend. But the zoo said Monday the thieves may have underestimated his moodiness and let him go. The animal later was recovered in a nearby creek.
A zoo official put it this way: "Mister Cranky Pants is a cranky pants, he gets moody, and so they probably messed with the wrong alligator and dumped him."
Mister Cranky Pants will undergo a quick medical check before he is reunited with his family.
How's Cranky doing? The official said, "You can tell with alligators by their eyes whether they're stressed or not stressed, and he looks glad to be back."
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