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Barefoot Florida man wrangles 7-foot alligator with trash can in insane video
2025-04-24
[NYPOST] When you get called away from Easter dinner to wrangle an alligator, sometimes you need to use the tools you have on site, which is what one Florida gator handler did on the holiday.

Video shared with FOX Weather by Mike Dragich showed the wild Sunday encounter in Jacksonville, Florida.

He said a woman was letting her dog out when she noticed the scaly tail of the 7-foot alligator slide by her patio.

''I responded from an Easter dinner with family, and improvised using a trash can to remove the alligator from the property,'' Dragich said.

A shoeless Dragich used two trash cans to corner and trap the visibly angry and hissing alligator. After getting the gator where he needed it, Dragich brought in a larger trash can with a lid to close the case on the intruder.

The woman who called Dragich can be heard cheering him on as he avoids the reptile's snapping jaws.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Glad didn't play for Univ. Houston!
At Folkston Georgia at the Gateway to the Okeefenokee swamp you can walk on wooden walkways about 3 feet above 12 foot gators. Used to Moonlight in the ER there as a resident; made for some interesting clinical experiences!
Posted by: Glick Glusoth6391   2025-04-24 13:42  

#2  Weeks before this news broke I viewed a different Youtube video showing a man using a single large lidded trash can to capture a gator of similar size, tipping it upright, causing the gator to slide to the bottom head first. He then wheeled the bin to a nearby body of water, tipped the bin & let the gator go back where he belonged.
Over Easter weekend I camped in a tiny state park in SE Georgia. It had a large pond with signs saying gators were present. People used canoes and paddleboats on the surface, none swam in it. Park personnel told me the gators were not aggressive and only dangerous to people in the pond or standing on the shoreline. Theoretically those gators could have freely crawled out of the pond and into the campground, but staff said that's never happened.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2025-04-24 09:25  

#1  Was she charged for the extra bin?
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-04-24 08:47  

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