Crime & Safety
‘Just Another Day In FL’: 9-Foot Gator Blocks Road, Sheriff Says
Deputies worked with Florida Fish and Wildlife to remove a 9-foot-long gator from a Hillsborough County road, the sheriff's office said.
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FL — Deputies dealt with an unexpected roadblock Wednesday morning — a 9-foot-long alligator, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post. (Watch a video of the gator below.)
“After a few twists and turns and with the help of Florida Fish and Wildlife (Conservation Commission), we were able to reel him out and relocate him to a safer spot,” the agency wrote. “Just another day here in Florida!”
HCSO shared bodycam footage of deputies and an FWC officer wrangling the gator. In the video, a deputy can be heard talking to the reptile.
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“Oh hi, big boy,” he said at one point.
Before that the deputy said, “You just taking a nap?”
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He also implored the large gator to leave the road on his own.
“Come on,” the deputy said. “Get going.”
Watch the bodycam footage of the gator being wrangled and removed below:
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