Overrun with alligators: Couple want ExxonMobil to pay for toothy neighbors

This Christmas story comes with large teeth — in the dozens of alligators that a couple say are ruining their use of property they own in rural Mississippi. Tom and Consandra J. Christmas claim in a lawsuit that they didn’t know about all the alligators — at least 84, they say — living next to the 35 acres of land they bought in December 2003 in Wilkinson County. The gators are coming from a refinery waste disposal site owned by ExxonMobil, according to court documents.