GARY, Ind. -- Mayor Rudy Clay says he couldn't believe it when he saw the latest piece of rubbish illegally dumped along a Gary street -- a 5- to 6-foot-long dead alligator.


"I jumped back," Clay said after visiting Thursday's reptile discovery.
The dead animal was found among a pile of roofing shingles and old tires dumped illegally from a 40-foot-long rolling garbage container in the city's Glen Park area.
Gary code enforcement officers arrested an employee of a recycling company on illegal dumping charges for leaving the animal and the other trash.
Clay said he's grown weary of his city being used as a dumping ground.
"The guy's orders were to dump anywhere in Gary," he said. "We've had all kinds of things dumped in our community. They've been using our community as a landfill."
In the past, city officials have arrested people for dumping everything from hypodermic needles to 47 barrels of magnesium nitrate.
Clay will hold a news conference Friday at City Hall to discuss the alligator find and the consequences of dumping illegally in Gary.

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How sad that even corporations are trashing the city. An employee was told to dump anywhere in Gary. Shows what people, even big business, thinks about Gary...a giant landfill.

wow...

the gator corps found in gary is a less tragic midwestern story than the buckeye corpse found in gainsville.

That's a pretty melodramatic article.

No disrespect to the person that posted this, it's the newspaper's fault, but this should be filed in the "who gives a shit" category in terms of newsworthiness.