Watch: Florida barefoot gator wrangler stops Easter dinner to ward off unwanted guest

The Brief

  • Florida barefoot alligator wrangler Mike Dragich, aka “The Blue Collar Brawler,” struck again after he recently helped a Jacksonville woman who spotted a large alligator in her yard.
  • Dragich said he responded to the call without his equipment, because he came directly from an Easter dinner.
  • Thankfully, Dragich was able to safely trap the angry gator in a trash can and remove it away from the neighborhood homes.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Florida barefoot alligator wrangler Mike Dragich, aka “The Blue Collar Brawler,” struck again after he put a pause on his Easter dinner to help a Jacksonville woman who spotted a large alligator in her yard.

Thankfully, Dragich said he was able to safely remove the gator away from the neighborhood homes, even without his equipment.

Large gator sneaks into neighborhood yard

The backstory:

Dragich was at Easter dinner when he received an emergency call from a woman in a new development on the north side of Jacksonville, who said she saw a 7-to-8-foot gator sliding by her patio as she was letting her dog out.

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