An Alligator Spotted In Idaho? Not Quite…

Seeing an image of an alligator in Idaho was not on my bingo card. Surprisingly, that space is still open on my bingo card.

An alligator in the Spokane River? Not quite...

North Idaho News posted to their Facebook & Instagram page about an alligator photographed in the Spokane River in Post Falls.

View the post on Facebook here

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I'm going to take you through my thought process when I first saw this post. First, I said to myself, "North Idaho News has to be a satire news outlet. No way this is real."

After looking into it, North Idaho News looked credible with user-submitted news. Then I thought, was it AI? It didn't look AI, but it's difficult to tell the difference nowadays.

So it's a legit page, and it doesn't look AI... was there really a dead alligator floating in an Idaho river?

Finally, I saw the comment that gave it away. It was all a marketing ploy by a company in Idaho called Croc Coatings. The garage sealant company conjured up a really clever Facebook post to get extra eyeballs on their company.

Smart.

Very smart.

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