Any fan of old Science Fiction movies knows the general story: a scary green dinosaur moves through the streets, causing a terrified population to flee. When Henryetta Animal Control Officer Richard Ashley got the call about a dinosaur descendent sauntering down Frisco Avenue recently, he may have thought someone was trying to play a joke on him. After all, there was no sign of a lizard of any size in the area when he arrived; much less a direct descendant of Godzilla. “I am not crazy,” one attractive young woman insisted. “I almost hit him with my car.” The lizard she described would have probably done some damage if she had hit it. It was, after all, half as long as many automobiles. Everyone in town teased the woman about her four feet lizard experience, until a few days later when a lady spotted the lizard in her yard. She called Animal Control and when he got there the dinky dinosaur was identified as a type of Iguana, the world’s largest lizard in the New World.
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April 14, 2023
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