An alligator showed up uninvited at a Florida home in the middle of the night — and the visit didn’t end well for the gator.
The visitation happened around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 8, in Bonita Springs, about a 150-mile drive south from Tampa, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.
A caller reported finding the 8-foot, 11-inch alligator on the doorstep.
How the caller encountered the alligator was not revealed, but gators are known to show up on porches in Florida and throw a tantrum when refused entry.
A state-licensed tracker was called and video shows he found it sitting in the yard like a lawn ornament.
The trapper took responsibility for catching it, but deputies weren’t let off the hook. They had to help lift it, and body camera video shows one deputy was stuck holding its toothy snout. (It was taped shut.)
“On three, really shove,” someone is heard saying in the video. “One, two, three, shove.”
With that, the alligator was shoved into the back of a truck.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports the alligator was “live transferred to an alligator farm,” which means its life was spared.