If you were driving along the Loop 101 in north Phoenix on Wednesday morning, you may have witnessed an unusual scene.
If you were driving along Loop 101 in north Phoenix on Wednesday morning, you may have witnessed an unusual scene.A reptile was spotted on the shoulder of the freeway near 7th Street on July 10.The Arizona Department of Transportation says its crews, along with members of the Phoenix Herpetological Sanctuary, rescued the reptile after it crawled into a storm drain.Trying to trap him was no walk in the park.How do you wrangle a four-foot long monitor lizard? Very carefully, of course.
Roszkowski says, "Rescuing reptiles every day, we do that, but on the highway, that’s a first."The lizard apparently pushed its way through a chicken-wire gate while his owners were away. Then he went from 16th Street and Union Hills Drive.Probably past a park, over a mountain, and through a neighborhood, before bumping into the highway.There are a few mementos from his two-week outing. Like a video captured by a hiker.
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