Piscataway police discover a three foot alligator as they make the rounds to help people from their homes in flooded portions of the town which has seen over a foot of rain in the last ten-days.

"It's not normal to find an alligator around here," Lt. George Maurer tells the Associated Press. "I know we've had a lot of rain but come on!."

An animal control officer trapped it in a cage and took it to an animal shelter.

Neither the woman who reported the gator sighting nor authorities knew how the alligator got there, Maurer said.

In other cases in which alligators are found the animals have been released by people who had kept them as pets.