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Florida home shockingly found two alligators at front door: ‘They’re getting smarter’
NY Post ^ | April 20, 2025 | Fabiana Buontempo

Posted on 04/20/2025 1:48:47 PM PDT by Red Badger

See ya later, alligator.

Many Floridians have had bizarre encounters with alligators — but this one might take the cake.

A Sunshine State resident took to Reddit to share their frightening experience with two creepy reptiles that came up to their home’s front door, which was all captured on the family’s Ring camera.

The footage shows two enormous alligators dilly-dallying around the home’s front porch.

When one of the alligators saw that no one was coming to the door to welcome them into their home, they lingered a little bit longer before growing impatient.

The video then showed one of the reptiles standing on its hind legs — looking just like a person, with its face pressed against the front door. His sidekick was crawling on the ground right behind him.

Maybe he was trying to scratch his way in — or announce he was there and didn’t mean any harm?

One could only speculate.


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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alligators; florida; wildlife
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To: Red Badger

“Candygram!”


21 posted on 04/20/2025 1:58:44 PM PDT by Allegra (Strategic initiatives )
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To: Red Badger

“Florida home shockingly found two alligators at front door: ‘They’re getting smarter’”

Can’t say that about Democrats.


22 posted on 04/20/2025 1:58:58 PM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: Red Badger

“Hey, Horace, you got a bobby pin? This lock looks pretty easy to pick.”


23 posted on 04/20/2025 2:00:37 PM PDT by Allegra (Strategic initiatives )
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To: Red Badger

Land shark.


24 posted on 04/20/2025 2:01:45 PM PDT by wgmalabama (For rent —)
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To: Red Badger

How much for non-resident license/ tags? Lol.

I’ll look it up. Florida?


25 posted on 04/20/2025 2:02:22 PM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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To: Red Badger
"Don't fence me in".
26 posted on 04/20/2025 2:02:31 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Never attribute malice to that which can be explained by incompetence.)
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To: Red Badger

CANDYGRAM


27 posted on 04/20/2025 2:04:10 PM PDT by al baby (I know sarcasm )
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To: Allegra

You beat me


28 posted on 04/20/2025 2:04:54 PM PDT by al baby (I know sarcasm )
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To: Red Badger

I have personal experience with a mountain lion that thought doggy-doors were food dispensers. A 35 pound or so red healer stuck his head out the door and WHOOSH! Out he went. The big cat was waiting and drug him right out. The dogs owner, a 5’11” lady watched it happen and dashed out the front door in her PJs with her lion attack gear (yes, a broom) The terrified lion dropped the dog and ran for it’s life. The little guy needed a lot of stitches but he was saved due to her quick reaction and nerves of steel. On an aside Mr. Badger, the dog’s name was “Red” also.


29 posted on 04/20/2025 2:08:22 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: al baby; Hetuck

And then I found out that Hetuck beat me at Post 7. 😏


30 posted on 04/20/2025 2:08:39 PM PDT by Allegra (Strategic initiatives )
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To: Red Badger

Smarter?

You mean they were both armed and the one brought his brother to do the talking for him?


31 posted on 04/20/2025 2:13:01 PM PDT by rx
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To: Allegra; al baby

Great minds think alike....


32 posted on 04/20/2025 2:15:00 PM PDT by Hetuck ("We will Barry you" - Nikita Khrushchev)
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To: Red Badger
A Sunshine State resident took to Reddit to share their frightening experience …

This reporter cannot really be this illiterate. He has to be trying to make some sort of extraneous point.

33 posted on 04/20/2025 2:16:16 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Red Badger

As to first contact accounts of how Indians treated alligators, when Cabeza de Vaca walked from Florida to the Pacific Coast of Mexico between 1527-36, his records describe not a single alligator.

One presumes they were considered good eating.


34 posted on 04/20/2025 2:17:53 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Red Badger

I can deal with deer. Not so much the Black bears and the alligators.

It must be why I’m only comfortable visiting back home, instead of living there year-round. And I have to put up with old man winter for half a year to do that.


35 posted on 04/20/2025 2:19:26 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Red Badger

NEVER MOVE TO FLORIDA! NEVER! NEVER!


36 posted on 04/20/2025 2:23:34 PM PDT by mairdie
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To: Red Badger

(Florida home shockingly found two alligators at front door: ‘They’re getting smarter’)

If they try to sell you Aluminum Siding or an Extended Car Warranty, I wouldn’t trust them.

Hope that helps...

Oh, BTW. DON’T give them your Social Security Number. Even if they claim they’re from the Federal government and have official-looking badges.

If they say: “We don’t need no stinking badges!” they’re just not to be trusted.


37 posted on 04/20/2025 2:29:34 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: enumerated
If they were smart they would sneak in the back door.

Getting there by way of the alley, of course.

They are alley gators....

38 posted on 04/20/2025 2:33:56 PM PDT by null and void (Start with the jab, end on a slab)
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To: Red Badger

The Jehovah’s Witnesses are getting more persistent these days.


39 posted on 04/20/2025 2:37:14 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Red Badger

Vampgators must be invited inside.


40 posted on 04/20/2025 2:37:28 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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