Florida alligator moves through neighborhood, gets head stuck in lawn chair: Watch video

Ever seen an alligator instrumentality connected a tract chair? That's a mean time successful Florida.

Local authorities, including the Lee County Sheriff's Office, were called to cod a feisty alligator seen picking a combat with an orangish tract seat connected a resident's beforehand structure connected Friday, May 9. (Spoiler alert: The alligator mislaid much than the fight.)

Footage of the low-stakes conflict was captured by the resident's doorbell camera, which shows the gator moving door-to-door successful Tortuga, a residential vicinity successful Fort Myers, earlier it was apprehended by a authorities alligator trapper.

Video shows alligator astatine beforehand doorway of home

"Knock knock! Your visitant is chomping astatine the spot to travel in!!" the sheriff's bureau wrote connected Facebook. "Our 3rd precinct deputies responded to a telephone this greeting of a suspicious…. Gator knocking connected doors wrong the Tortuga community."

The trapper, with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, was capable to wrangle the reptile disconnected the structure and into a pickup motortruck with assistance from a mates of deputies.

"Thankfully, helium was secured and handed implicit to the trapper safely," the station reads. "How's that for taking a BITE outta crime?"

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Another viral Florida alligator encounter: Barefoot antheral vs. gator

While alligator sightings are reasonably communal crossed the Sunshine State, thing could've prepared authorities and section authorities successful Jacksonville for what they saw spell down connected April 28.

Local agencies, including a section wrangler named Mike Dragich, were connected a ngo to get an alligator disconnected the streets aft the apex predator was spotted successful the median of I-95/I-295 successful Jacksonville’s Southside area.

Dragich, who goes by Blue Collar Brawler on societal media, was recorded attempting to coax the alligator into submission.

Dragich was seen utilizing a rod to prosecute the gator, who snaps and whips its process astatine him successful a grassy median arsenic cars velocity by connected either side.

He past wrangles it onto the enarthrosis of the highway, past sits connected its backmost to muzzle the beast — each portion shoeless, wearing camouflage shorts and a sleeveless camo shirt. Dragich and a chap authorities alligator trapper assistance the gator disconnected the enarthrosis of the roadway and load it into the backmost of a pickup truck.

"Never successful my wildest dreams," an off-camera dependable says, arsenic the gator wrangler laughs.

“If you were cruising down I-95/I-295 connected the Southside yesterday and thought you saw a barefoot antheral wrestling a elephantine alligator successful the median — nope, your eyes weren’t playing tricks connected you. That happened,” the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office wrote successful a Facebook post.

When is alligator mating season?

Alligator mating play typically occurs successful May oregon June, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Contributing: Diamond Walker, Phaedra Trethan, Ashley Ferrer, Lianna Norman, USA TODAY Network

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