Only in Florida: Alligator makes himself at home

[TooFarTampa]

Imagine seeing this in your kitchen!

EAST LAKE -- Around 10:30 p.m. Monday, Sandra Frosti heard an intruder bumping around in her kitchen.

Turns out, the noise was made by an 8-foot, 8-inch alligator that had crawled into the 69-year-old's kitchen in Eastlake Woodlands.

The female alligator apparently pushed through a screened panel on the back porch, shouldered its way past a potted ficus tree, then got inside the house through an open rear sliding glass door. Once inside, it crawled through the living room, down the hall and into the kitchen.

http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2008/04/gator-spotted-i.html#comments

 

[Mermaid]

I wonder from what vantage point the homeowner took the photos! I know I'd have been standing on the kitchen countertops way out of reach if I were her. Some of the comments readers have left are hilarious ("Pa, get the gun. Dinner's here!").

 

[TooFarTampa]

I wonder from what vantage point the homeowner took the photos! I know I'd have been standing on the kitchen countertops way out of reach if I were her. Some of the comments readers have left are hilarious ("Pa, get the gun. Dinner's here!").

Or, "mama wants some new shoes ..."

I think it was the sheriff's deputies who took the photos. I don't think they get paid enough to take those photos. I know ShallowsFuzz would never want to be that close to a Gator. I mean gator.

 

[Matt J]

The latest in trendy flooring options gator skin.

 

[Parrothead74]

we're buying a baby alligator for Fiji Island this weekend

 

[Rudyjohn]

I heard this on the radio today. This is an area very near where we lived and there is (or was) a lot of vacant wooded land, semi-swampy. this didn't surprise me at all when I heard this!

 

[seagrovegirl]

I would have called Sam Wesley...he's our local gator wrestler. He's got the scars to prove it wrestling a gator in Pandora's parking lot!

 

[Smiling JOe]

Cannot just shoot them anymore, when they enter your house or yard. You are required to first obtain a permit, and the kill has to be during Alligator Hunting Season. There was an arrest in Florida last year when a lady shot one in her yard, which was going after her dog. She was charged with hunting out of season without a permit. Didn't get caught until the incident was reported on TV.

 

[NoHall]

If a gator invades your home in Seaside, are you allowed to take its picture?

 

[Smiling JOe]

Depends. Did you hire a professional Seaside registered photographer?