9-foot gator pulled from Florida drain after getting stuck

Forget ninja turtles, in Florida gators rule the sewer drains.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Forget ninja turtles, in Florida, alligators rule the sewer drains. 

John Ruel, of Oldsmar, captured this video of a nine-foot gator being pulled out of a drain in his neighborhood.

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Ruel said the gator was stuck in the drain and a trapper was called to remove him. The trapper had to open the sewer and take him out from the back, because he was too large to fit through the front.

The trapper taped the gator's mouth when he arrived at the scene, then opened the sewer drain and pulled the gator out backward.

Ruel wrote on Facebook that he spoke to the trapper and the gator will not be euthanized.


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