Posted on 02/09/2016 8:11:13 AM PST by BenLurkin
Investigators identified Joshua James, of Jupiter, Fla., as the man who tossed the 3.5-foot reptile into a Wendy's last fall, according to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission incident report. He faces three charges related to the incident: Aggravated assault with a deadly weapon; unlawful sale, possession or transporting of an alligator; and petty theft.
James, 24, was taken into custody and booked into the Palm Beach County Detention Center on Monday, as first reported by NBC affiliate WPTV.
Wearing a backwards hat and a white t-shirt, the driver arrived at the drive-through window to receive a large drink around 1:23 a.m. on Oct. 11, according to the report's summary of surveillance footage.
"While the attendant has her back to the window and is at her register, the male driver reaches across the inside of his vehicle in the passenger area and throws an alligator from his vehicle into the drive through window," the report reads.
A photograph in the report shows the alligator flat with its legs splayed on the fast food restaurant's kitchen floor. An officer responding to the incident captured the alligator, taped its jaws shut "for safety" and released it into a nearby canal, according to the report.
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Idiot! Deliveries always go to the back door.
I sure hope we get open carry here soon.
Why assault? the gator end up in the chili?
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lol.
Remind me of the Freshman.
Funny movie if you’ve never seen it.
I emailed Wendy’s and asked them to start serving hamburgers again. Not everyone likes cheeseburgers and we don’t like to pay for them to keep the cheese ! (That’s a ripoff !!)
But even I would think of throwing an alligator into a franchise. Corporate perhaps, but not a franchise !!
Funny, pretty harmless and of course the nanny state wants to put him away.
-“It was just a stupid prank that he did that’s now turning into this; it’s stupid,†his mother told WPTV. “He’s a prankster. He does stuff like this because he thinks it’s funny.â€
And there may lie part of the problem. Sounds like his parents(his mom at least) thinks it’s no big deal.....and I’m not so sure it is no big deal.
Looks like a Bernie supporter.
That’s how they always deliver restaurant supplies in Louisiana.
And to think, back in the 1960s the assault gator was almost eliminated from the USA and they became an endangered species.
3 1/2’ gator is big enough to take a few fingers or maybe more. If that had happened to say a female employee would you still feel it was harmless? Not trying to provoke an argument, just askin’.
That only happens in Louisiana.
I agree about not putting him away. I’d also vote to acquit the manager employees for beating the living stuffing out of him.
Why? Drugs? How did he drive around with the gator and how did he grab it so quickly and throw into the window?
Wendy’s combo meals: Have it your way!
Hey he wanted fried Gator chips with french fries done his way.
Tastes like chicken.......
Hey, mon, yoo got sumpin’ agin fried gator tail?
Gotta have sumpin’ what to go wid’ da dirty rice!
;^)
You guys won't friggin believe what happened to me last night!"
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