On Friday, May 9, an alligator was seen fighting with an orange lawn chair on a resident’s front porch. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office and other local officials were called to take the alligator away. (Surprise!) The alligator lost more than just the fight.
Doorbell cameras in the homes in Fort Myers’ Tortuga neighborhood caught the low-stakes fight. The footage shows the alligator going from door to door before it was caught by a state alligator hunter.
A video shows an alligator at a house’s front door
“Knock, knock!” “The person who called is eager to enter!” the sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook. “Our 3rd precinct deputies responded to a call this morning of a suspicious…. Gator knocking on doors within the Tortuga community.”
With the help of two officers, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission trapper was able to get the snake off the porch and into a pickup truck.
“Thankfully, he was secured and handed over to the trapper safely,” it says. “How’s that for taking a BITE outta crime?”
Another Florida alligator video that went viral: barefoot man vs. gator
Alligator sightings happen all over the Sunshine State, but on April 28, nothing could have prepared state and local officials in Jacksonville for what they saw.
After an alligator was seen in the middle of I-95/I-295 in Jacksonville’s Southside area, local authorities, including a wrangler named Mike Dragich, set out to get the animal off the streets.
Dragich, whose social media name is Blue Collar Brawler, was caught on camera trying to get the alligator to give up.
People saw Dragich fight the gator with a pole. The gator snaps and whips its tail at him in the middle of the grass while cars speed by on both sides.
Then he leads it to the side of the highway and sits on its back to muzzle it. He does this while not wearing shoes and wearing shorts and a shirt without sleeves. Dragich and another alligator trapper from the same state move the gator off the side of the road and put it in the back of a pickup truck.
“Never in my wildest dreams,” a voice off-screen says, making the gator handler laugh.
It’s not possible that you saw a barefoot man fighting a huge alligator in the middle of I-95/I-295 on the Southside yesterday. Your eyes were just playing tricks on you. In a Facebook post, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said, “That did happen.”