Among the interesting aspects about living in the Houston area are the interesting things that one can find near one of the area’s many bayous in residential areas within or near Houston’s inner loop:

A contractor hired by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department captured a 9-foot-long, 275-pound male alligator Thursday near Greens Bayou just outside Houston.
“He was removed without incident,” said Capt. Albert Lynch, a state game warden in Harris County, “but as many alligators as I’ve moved over the years, they usually do put up quite a fight.”
The alligator was caught right off Interstate 10 near the intersection of Normandy, in a flood-detention canal near Greens Bayou, . . .