Police shoot dangerous looking alligator, only to find it's a lawn ornament

Maybe the cop was drinking on the job?Daily MailThey don't get many alligators in the suburbs of land-locked Kansas City, but if and when they do the local police like to think they can handle it.Officers responding to a rare sighting in the suburb of Independence, Missouri, left nothing to chance. Seeing the alligator's head lurking menacingly in the weeds leading down to a pond they fired off