Posted on 04/01/2018 12:22:46 AM PDT by goldstategop
Large alligator pulled from pool in Sarasota County
Gator pulled from pool in Sarasota Co. Large gator found in pool By: Jennifer Holton, FOX 13 News
NOKOMIS (FOX 13) - It’s not your typical pool party, but for this eleven foot-long alligator, this Sarasota home seemed like the right place to make a splash and startle the homeowners.
At first, Rob Carver thought the noise could have been an intruder.
“I thought a two-legged intruder,” Carver said. “I turned on the lights and looked out the bedroom window, and I saw something outside the lanai and at first I thought it was a bobcat, but then I looked at it and said, “oh my God, that’s a large alligator. Next thing I know the gator comes right through the screen like butter.”
Two hours later, trappers struggled to capture the massive reptile.
“Once the trapper came and put ropes and restraints on it, it was thrashing around pretty good, splashing water around the pool,” Carver said.
Carver said it is a late night dip, he won’t soon forget.
“It wasn’t like just this little creature, but it was not a quite a monster,” he said.
FOX 13 News reached out to the FWC, who said in most cases after an alligator is captured it is processed for its hide and meat.
They say only occasionally are nuisance alligators sold alive to an alligator farm, exhibit, or zoo.
It really happened. An alligator in Sarasota County, Florida - decided to join a family's pool party! Video and pics at link.
Alligators and crocodiles are scary.
I don’t know how people live so close to them.
(shudder)
Ha!
My husband and I went into an Open House for sale in Pontra Vedra Fla and there was an alligator inside the house. he wasn’t a large gator but he did move quickly.
Film seen on our local station’s ‘news’ last night. The gator =one big dude, swimming in the residential swimming pool. How it might have been captured was not shown, but his swim style was rated and his ride out of town was seen. Just one more reason to install a concrete pond is not the best of options, especially in Florida.
They can move especially when they are outside your "lanai".
I had to look that silly word up. I guess using "porch" would make them sound too much like a southern cracker.
AND everyone knows you do not mix alligators with verandas. Just not proper
Al lanai is not a porch. It typically the screen room around your pool. If no pool it’s a screen room with some sort of roof.
“I don’t know how people live so close to them.”
Kinda like checking the neighborhood out before buying a new home just to make sure none are living in a house on the street?
Kinda like making sure no Grizzly Bears are camped out in the neighborhood?
Kinda like making sure no coyotes are rummaging around in the neighborhood snaking on your Yorkies?
Maybe there is a Gila Monster enclave just on the other side of the ice plant patch?
Knowing the wildlife in your area has its own collection of ‘scary’ things that are ‘scary’ only because you refuse to acknowledge that ‘scary’ wildlife exists everywhere, except maybe the Galapagos or on Sesame Street.
Heck of a marketing technique...
Could be worse....try living in Broward county.
In my area we worry more about the two legged ones.
True.
Things like this is why we have a 6’ wood fence around the yard. Don’t need critters in my pool.
I think in Southern California a few years back someone found a bear swimming in their pool.
Somehow that still doesn’t seem as scary as an alligator to me.
I’m sure Floridians have “rules to live by” like don’t swim in the swamp. :-) Around here there are many Black Widow spiders and Copperhead snakes. Keep your fingers and toes where you can see them and you won’t have a problem.
Yep. In my neck of the woods this winter I have heard nearby coyote packs singing at night, a cougar was sighted just across the road and up the hill, a bear was spotted about three miles away, and bobcats regularly feast on house pets.
I live on the western edge of the Cascade Mountain foothills in Oregon.
Near 'Squatch country?
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