Ever seen an alligator take on a lawn chair? That’s a normal day in Florida.
Local authorities, including the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, were called to collect a feisty alligator seen picking a fight with an orange lawn chair on a resident’s front porch on Friday, May 9. (Spoiler alert: The alligator lost more than the fight.)
Footage of the low-stakes battle was captured by the resident’s doorbell camera, which shows the gator moving door-to-door in Tortuga, a residential neighborhood in Fort Myers, before it was apprehended by a state alligator trapper.
“Knock knock! Your visitor is chomping at the bit to come in!!” 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.”
The trapper, with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, was able to wrangle the reptile off the porch and into a pickup truck with help from a couple of deputies.
“Thankfully, he was secured and handed over to the trapper safely,” the post reads. “How’s that for taking a BITE outta crime?”
Another viral Florida alligator encounter: Barefoot man vs. gator
While alligator sightings are fairly common across the Sunshine State, nothing could’ve prepared state and local authorities in Jacksonville for what they saw go down on April 28.
Local agencies, including a local wrangler named Mike Dragich, were on a mission to get an alligator off the streets after the apex predator was spotted in the median of I-95/I-295 in Jacksonville’s Southside area.
Dragich, who goes by Blue Collar Brawler on social media, was recorded attempting to coax the alligator into submission.
Dragich was seen using a pole to engage the gator, who snaps and whips its tail at him in a grassy median as cars speed by on either side.