As long as it resides in my lake, I have to keep the lakeshore cordoned off, |
Can you believe that? ... I don't know why people are so angry about it. |
Certainly now, after Katrina, I don't think we want to be caught flat-footed, |
He said he just wanted to thank Los Angeles, ... He said, 'I want to pay them back for sheltering me and welcoming me.' |
He's filled out paperwork to become a volunteer with the city of Los Angeles, ... I welcome T-Bone's experience and advice and participation in the process. |
I think it will absolutely revitalize downtown, |
I think we'll have to take a hard look at the possibility that this gator is not going to be caught. |
I thought it wouldn't hurt to have somebody else's advice, ... The only agenda I have is catching Reggie and I thought this was an opportunity to give this evacuee something to do. |
If any of those animals had escaped, we could have had a different ending, ... By dumping Reggie in the lake, he put children at risk. |
It will hurt our ability to provide the most basic services: police, firefighting, health care and good schools, |
It's frightening. It's scary. These people put a lot of people at risk. |
It's Reggie 3, experts zero, |
Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control. |
The Gatorland guys worked their hearts out, ... They worked free of charge and the conditions were rough. They've been away from home and they were tired, so I'll give them that. But they didn't catch the gator. |
They offered to take it back, but we haven't decided that's the right thing to do, ... After all, it's an L.A. gator. |