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Tampa Cops Wrangle Alligator Near Intersection

Police officers wrangled an alligator near a Tampa, Florida, intersection on the morning of March 29, Tampa Police said.

The footage shows police officers capturing the alligator near the intersection of West Kathleen Street and North Howard Avenue.

Police said, “No alligators (or officers) were injured in this ‘jaw-dropping’ video.”

The alligator was “taken for a ride by […] the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to find a more suitable home,” police said. Credit: Tampa Police via Storyful

Video transcript

[CHATTER]

- Yeah, once he's tired again.

[FOOTSTEPS]

[CHATTER]

You're getting there.

[FOOTSTEPS]

[CHAINS CLANGING]

[CROCODILES GROANS]

I know, buddy.

[CHATTER]

[CROCODILE HISSES]

[CHATTER]

[BEEPING]

- Let me see that rope.

[CHATTER]

Yeah, pull him out a little bit.

[SCRAPPING]

[CHATTER]

- You ready?

- He's behind you. You're looking at the wrong guy.

[CHATTER]

- I don't care what [INAUDIBLE].

- I don't [INAUDIBLE].

- Do you want to jump on him?

[CHAINS CLANGING]

[CHATTER]

- Yeah, I'm going to take the head.

[CHATTER]

- You ready?

- Yeah, [INAUDIBLE].

- I'm going to go to the head, then you just sit on his body.

[CHATTER]

- You ready?

- Yeah.

[CHATTER]

[SHUFFLING]

[CROCODILE GROANS]

[GASPING]

- Good job, Luke. I'm proud of you.

- Let's keep the weight on him.

[CHATTER]

- Give me one more.

[CHATTER]

- What do you need?

- One more what? For weight?

- Then I got nothing.

[CHATTER]

[WHIRRING]

- One more [INAUDIBLE].

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- And a towel to cover his eyes up.

- Yeah, do you have a towel on him.

[CHATTER]

- Hey, guys, back off off the street.

[CHATTER]

Guys, back off the street [INAUDIBLE].

- Mike, do you want the rope tightened?

- Um, you're fine the way you got it. I just need the tape.

- Is this going to be all right?

- No, uh, I just need something to cover his eyes so he chills out.

[CHATTER]

- I know George is getting the towel.

[CHATTER]

- Take your strip of tape--

[CHATTER]

--just cover his head, like, behind his nose, like, where my hand-- left hand is at--

- OK.

[CHATTER]

--and we're going to tape his mouth shut.

[CHATTER]

You guys, just go underneath the rope, like, right-- right here is where you want to be at.

[CHATTER]

[TAPE PULLING]

[CHATTER]

All right, break that off.

[CHATTER]

Let's go around and put it [INAUDIBLE].

[CHATTER]

- Let me just go ahead and use that one.

- We're just using that two-- two rounds, is that what we're doing?

[CHATTER]

We've got plenty.

- Is there a tape to put it on [INAUDIBLE].

- Is there like an alligator-- like--

- Can you tape his front legs together behind me? I have them tucked back. So you're just taping it like--

- You mean like the rope--

- Yeah, like, behind his back, like you're handcuffing him.

[TAPE PULLING]

[CHATTER]

- No, it's all right.

[CHATTER]

- Yeah.

[CHATTER]

[TAPE PULLING]

[BEEPING AND VIBRATING]

[CHATTER]

- [INAUDIBLE]

[CHATTER]

- Yeah, I know much better.

- I know much better.

[LAUGHTER]

[CHATTER]

And we're going to do the same thing with his back legs.

[CHATTER]

- Move!

- [INAUDIBLE] and all.

[SCRATCHING]

[ENGINE RUNNING]

[CHATTER]

- To the right.

- All right, we meet when we load him up, we need to talk a little bit.

- All right.

- Yeah.

[CHATTER]

- Just careful on that.

[CHATTER]

- Hey, so when he's tied up like that--

- [INAUDIBLE] you got enough tape?

- Yeah, [INAUDIBLE].

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- Is that what you're doing?

- That looks like a hope and a prayer.

[CHATTER]

- Yeah, I want to-- I want to get the rope off.

- Did you have [INAUDIBLE]?

- He spent about 10 minutes on this.

- Well, he rolled, rolled-- yeah, that's what you want. You don't want to jump [INAUDIBLE].

- Yeah.

- Usually, what I do is I'll lasso him and tie him off to a telephone pole.

[CHATTER]

- Just let him do what the hell he wants.

- You're looking at the telephone pole right there.

[LAUGHTER]

- If he find out it's not a telephone pole, he'll beat the crap out him.

[LAUGHTER]

[CHATTER]

- You go right down the wall.

[CHATTER]

- It's all right.

[CHATTER]

[TAPE PULLING]

[CHATTER]

[LAUGHTER]

- There is more room [INAUDIBLE].

- Yeah, that's not coming out right now.

- Is that crap [INAUDIBLE].

- Yeah, you just cut it there.

[CHATTER]

No, it's-- he's-- he's got his teeth in it.

[CHATTER]

- Pull it tight.

- [INAUDIBLE]

[CHATTER]

- Yeah, just put like-- you good with that?

[TAPE PULLING]

[CHATTER]

- Yeah, [INAUDIBLE].

- If the cops are going nowhere, charge him a lot of money [INAUDIBLE].

[CHATTER]

- He's paying 10, right?

[TAPE PULLING]

- That's it--

[INTERPOSING VOICES]

- What's up with that?

--but I've never seen [INAUDIBLE].

- There's that big [INAUDIBLE].

- Well, I call-- I called a [INAUDIBLE].

- You can tape that head. [INAUDIBLE] go from here to cover his eyes.

[ENGINES RUNNING]

[TAPE PULLING]

[BEEPING AND VIBRATING]

[CHATTER]

- We've got-- we've got the camcorder around our little [INAUDIBLE] a year ago. [INAUDIBLE].

[CHATTER]

There was a lot of [INAUDIBLE].

[CHATTER]

[LAUGHTER]

- [INAUDIBLE]

- Huh?

[CHATTER]

- You doing all right right now?

- Right know, yeah. I'd love to be part of this, yeah.

[CHATTER]

[LAUGHTER]

[HISSING]

- Yeah.

[HISSING]

[CHATTER]

- He's warming back up again.

[CHATTER]

- Just a little bit more.

[CHATTER]

[CROCODILE HISSING]

[CHATTER]

- I did not see this.