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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.
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Pinellas deputies called a trapper who removed it about 1:30 a.m. During the capture, the gator was slightly injured when a plate was knocked to the ground and cut the reptile. No other injuries were reported.“The house was a mess,” Frosti said. “It did a good amount of damage in the kitchen.”
Cripes. This was less than a mile from my house… and we have a six-footer living in the lake behind our house and it’s mating season.
Thanks MJ.
I wish it came to my house. Looks like fine eating. Haven’t had gator in a while.
“Cripes. This was less than a mile from my house… and we have a six-footer living in the lake behind our house and it’s mating season.”
hhopper, if I’d live there, I’d get pets – a dog or two. Too bad they don’t eat crocs, but at least can warn you about such hungry guests on premises 😉
0. hhopper. Try bears that come to play on my kids’ playset. And I’m only 15 minutes from a major downtown.
RBG
#2 888 an eight foot alli! (not a croc)
You would hear, bark, bark, snap, silence.
Then two days later, same visitor.
I like the story where it went in a child’s wade pool.
#4
LOL
of course I mean dogs as a living alarm system (probably best there is, short of some pentagon-style computer systems).
Dogs aren’t that stupid as you think – it would be more like “bark bark bark bark…” from a safe distance endlessly, until hhopper wakes up and comes down with .45 (or whatever he has)
My gun’s so small that if I held it with three fingers, I’d shoot two of them off.
Hopper, just don’t try to mate with it! LOL!
I was in Tampa yesterday at the airport. My hard shell Samsonite luggage fell from the top of one of the 3 story escalators. It took off like a shot. Luckily there was only one person about halfway down and she was able to side step this thing. Then TSA held me up for a half an hour because my iPod headphone amp ( http://tinyurl.com/44cvxt ) looked suspicious. They actually took a picture of it and sent it off to “headquarters” so they could have a look. I had to demonstrate it before they let me go. They told me they never saw one before. I replied that I guess not, when all they make is minimum wage. I would have rather encountered the alligator.
wouldn’t it be a good idea to basically not have a screen protecting the potential everything down there? Just in case????
Thats a little one.
I have gators that mate in my back yard and migrate to the lake out front.
The local newspaper ran a gator story a few years back. They had a sequence of pictures showing a six foot alligator climbing over a 4 foot chain link fence. I was impressed.
sounds like a Wallet, purse, and a NICE belt, is in its future..
Someone’s in the kitchen with Sandra
Someone’s in the kitchen I know-oh-oh-oh
Someone’s in the kitchen with Sandra,
And it ain’t snackin’ on an oreo…
Has anyone seen my corgi? Princess? Princess?