Alligator 1, Cops 0: Reptile Takes Bite Out Of Crimefighters' Car

SHREVEPORT, LA — An alligator was minding its own business Monday when it ran afoul of Caddo Parish police, who were also minding their own business — in this case, answering a call about the 8-foot reptile in the middle of Louisiana Highway 1.

Deputies from the Caddo County Sheriff’s Office tried to contain the alligator, but it opened its jaws for the win, taking a bite out of the grill of the patrol cruiser.

The gator is “the one that got away,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a Facebook post. It went on its way before wildlife removal experts could arrive to relocate it.

The widely shared Facebook post unleashed a trove of hilarious comments, including several that said the alligator should have been charged with “bite and run” and another that said the encounter was “not how one perceives crime taking a bite out of the law.”

Others were eager to see the accident and insurance reports. One quoted the sing-songy line from the Farmers Insurance commercial, “We know a thing or two because we’ve seen a thing or two.”

“The insurance agent said, ‘What ate your car?’,” Lynn Richardson wrote.

“Y’all need to get them and train them so we’d have K-9 K-Alligator units all around,” Michelle Boynton noted, saying she doesn’t know “about y’all, but I can visualize the individual being chased by an alligator.”

Jan Deemer, noting that “they are at my Momma’s all the time,” said encountering alligators is “the price you pay when you live on the Bayou.”

Deemer had her own encounter with an alligator as a high school student.

“I decided to go down to the land that was being bulldozed,” Deemer wrote. “I knew that alligators had been seen there. Well I got my younger brother to go with me, we saw some swimming around and that’s when I got the idea to throw some dried pieces of dirt at them.

“I never thought that I would hit one and I hit one! The alligator came out of the water running. I jumped into my car and [for some] reason I locked my door leaving my brother on his own. I learned a lesson” Don’t mess with them. We look back and laugh.”

Charlotte Siller Anderson wondered this:

“What was God thinking about when He told Noah to put them on the Ark?”