10-Foot Gator Blocks Traffic On FL Keys Highway: Trapper

FLORIDA KEYS — A 10-foot alligator blocked traffic on a Florida Keys highway Monday evening, Pesky Critters Wildlife Control, which was called in to wrangle the reptile, wrote in an Instagram post. (Watch a video of trappers controlling and removing the angry gator here.)

The company's trappers were dispatched around 6:30 p.m. to mile marker 126 along the 18-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 1 that connects Florida City with Key Largo, the company said.

The gator blocked both northbound lanes of traffic for more than an hour as wildlife expert Todd Hardwick and his trappers and members of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office battled with the creature.

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Tre Huntoon, star of the Animal Planet's "Gator Boys," happened to be leaving the Florida Keys when he stopped to help with the removal of the gator, MCSO wrote in a Facebook post.

"You never know what you'll get on a call in the Florida Keys," the agency wrote. "Never a dull moment!"