‘Florida grown at its finest’
That’s what one observer had to say of a deputy at a local Sheriff’s office who, in the span of a few minutes, efficiently pulled an alligator out of a backyard swimming pool and buckled it in the backseat of his patrol car, ready to be relocated.
As reported by the Sheriff’s office on social media:
The alligator wasn’t happy its pool time was over or about the ride in the patrol car, but it was buckled in and safely relocated to a nearby pond by Deputy [Nathan] Richardson.
When asked about putting a seat belt on the alligator, this is what Richardson was quoted as saying:
I put everyone in a seat belt in my back seat so I felt like I should buckle the gator up too.