By Conway Crew
Maybe he was just hangry. Good choice gator.
Sheriff s deputies in Lee County, Florida were called to a Wendy s on Monday for reports of an alligator chasing people around the parking lot.
The gator measured 7-feet-3-inches and took deputies on a whirlwind tour of other nearby parking lots as they tried to catch it.
Eventually, the gator was safely captured outside the Lehigh Acres Health & Rehab Center and relocated to an alligator farm.
Officials say no one was hurt during the gator chase.
Have you ever been chased or had a close encounter with a wild animal?
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TORONTO Police in a Florida town wrangled what they call a hangry alligator to safety after it was found chasing people in a Wendy s parking lot. The 1.8-metre-long alligator was found at the parking lot on Monday in Lehigh Acres, Fla. After wrangling the gator, sheriff s deputies and members of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission safely relocated it away from the parking lot. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno joked on Twitter that the alligator may have just been hangry for a cheeseburger. GATOR CHASE Deputies responded to Lee Blvd today after this 6-ft gator chased pedestrians through a Wendy s parking lot.
By Zuri Anderson
May 18, 2021
WFLA.
“He may have just been ‘hangry’ for a cheeseburger, but he gave many quite the scare,” officials from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office joked on Twitter.
The wild event unfolded Monday afternoon in Lehigh Acres, just east of Fort Myers. Deputies and a nuisance gator trapper responded to reports of the predator in a Wendy s parking lot, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) confirmed.
Authorities were able to wrangle to 7-foot-3-inch gator in the parking lot of Lehigh Acres Health & Rehabilitation Center. The animal was also relocated to an alligator farm, officials added.