Thug Viral is yet another fake news site that does not contain a disclaimer specifically identifying the site as a purveyor of fake news. There are other ways to document that the above-quoted story is non-factual, however:

First, the two photographs included with the article do not show either a sexually assaulted alligator nor a man who was arrested for sexually assaulting an alligator. The alligator photograph was taken in 2013 at Lake Wyman Park in Boca Raton, Florida, after a nine-foot alligator was captured there by local authorities:

The photograph of the man included in the article does not show a suspect who was arrested for having sex with an alligator, although it was taken from a somewhat related story: the man seen here was arrested in Illnois in 2013 on charges involving sexual abuse of a peacock:

David Beckmann, 64, was charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty after Roselle police said they learned about the abuse and subsequent death of the bird, named Phyl, while investigating another crime.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/man-arrested-for-alligator-sex/

Grasswire2

(13,565 posts)

9. yes, the whole thing with the alligator is a hoax, a "thing" made up for a joke.

Reply to ProudLib72 (Reply #8)

Sat May 11, 2019, 04:32 PM

May 2019

The funny part is the puns in the twitter comments. Everyone there knows it wasn't real.

I guess some people thought it was real here.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)

10. But the horror of it is that he raped a peacock for real

Reply to Grasswire2 (Reply #9)

Sat May 11, 2019, 04:39 PM

May 2019

It was like someone was thinking, "What could possibly be worse than a peacock in this instance? Oh, I know! An alligator."

Grasswire2

(13,565 posts)

11. well, the people who were reacting to the twitter joke with their puns had no knowledge..

Reply to ProudLib72 (Reply #10)

Sat May 11, 2019, 04:49 PM

May 2019

...of the man's prior history and no reason to wonder. They knew the alligator was a joke. That's all.

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