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A robot equipped with a camera, aimed at checking potholes on the road, accidentally discovered a reptile. The video recording of this moment went viral.
Confirmation of the terrible myth about alligators in sewers was discovered in the state of Florida, when workers from Oviedo noticed a one and a half meter long reptile living in a pipe filled with sludge. The New York Post writes about it.
The images sparked outrage on the city's Facebook page, underscoring the seriousness of the situation and recalling the legend of alligators in the sewers that circulates in big cities, especially after the release of cult movies about monsters from underground tunnels.
A robot equipped with a camera to check for potholes in the road accidentally discovered something much scarier: an alligator. The video recording of this terrible moment went viral, causing a wide response on the network.
Social media has been stunned by the sewage-dwelling reptile that resembles the sewer-dwelling villain, "Killer Croc" from the Batman franchise.
"Have you ever seen anything like this," one stunned viewer asked, while another wrote: "Wow, that's scary."
Others wondered how the alligator managed to get into the labyrinthine drainage system of 75 miles of underground pipes beneath the city.
The city of Oviedo suggested that it entered through "one of the storm sewer ponds" used to prevent flooding during storms.
The head of the exploitation service said that they are just glad that it was not a human, but a robot that encountered the reptile.
Based on this event, many are wondering how widespread this myth is, and how true it can be. Some past incidents, including a 2010 incident in New York City in which an alligator crawled out of a Queens sewer, point to the possibility of its existence in other cities.
Regardless of the historical facts, however, the discovery of an alligator in a Florida sewer is a reminder of the real danger that can lurk underground.
