Orkin Man Meets His Match: 400-Pound Gator
Pest-Control Employee Discovers Animal While Spraying For Insects
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- An Orkin Pest Control employee working at a New Smyrna Beach house Tuesday morning discovered more than the typical Florida insects -- he found a 10-foot long, 400-pound alligator.
The man found the alligator laying in the shade in the back yard of the house. It was in a 100 foot by 60 foot area that is enclosed with a 3-foot fence, according to WKMG News.No one knows where the alligator came from, as the closest body of water is the Indian River about two blocks away. Trappers believe that the alligator climbed the fence to get into the yard."With the drought that we're having now, (alligators) are having to move to find new habitat," Andy Signell of the Fish & Wildlife Commission said.No one was home at the time the gator was found, and the homeowner said that she thought the alligator was a tree when she looked out her window before leaving the home.Neighbors were trying to get as close to the animal as possible, and one person was videotaping the entire incident.But Signell warned that you should stay as far from alligators as possible."It could have hurt you worse than you can imagine," he said."I've lived in this property since 1945 and never had an alligator as a visitor," a neighbor told WKMG News reporter Tarik Minor.Because of the size of the alligator, trappers decided to kill it rather than attempt to capture it.Stay with myCFnow.com and WKMG News for more details.
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