160 French citizens yet to be found

I may just know of a ticking-tocking beret wearing reptile with all the answers.



Alligators are stalking the flooded waters of New Orleans and rescuers fear they will eat the bodies of Hurricane Katrina's victims. Michael Rieger, a public information officer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said
"There are a lot of people that are never going to be found. There are a lot of alligators in the water, and alligators love that type of stuff."

But there is fresh meat too! Rising waters carried 2 people in a car into a ditch filled with alligators that had escaped from a nearby alligator farm

Next week the French plan on going to check the damage at their alligator farm.
The French fashion industry, which relies on Louisiana for 300,000 alligator hides every year, is worried that swamped alligator farms and a disrupted hunting season will leave them short of watchstraps, handbags and shoes.
While there have been plenty of sightings of alligators in the floodwaters that have ravaged America's Gulf Coast, French tanneries are concerned that the shooting season, which was due to begin on September 3, will not deliver its normal load of hides. Around 80 per cent of hides are provided by hunters, with the remaining 20 per cent furnished by alligator farms.

I'm just saying...
If I were an alligator, and the French fashion farmers were raising me for a strapy sandal, and I got free....just might be tempted to go for them first.