Whoah! Woman finds 8-foot alligator in kitchen

[SUBMAN1]

You don't find one of these begging for food in the kitchen every day!

-S

Whoah! Woman finds 8-foot alligator in kitchen

69-year-old Floridian spots animal after it pushes through porch screen



updated 2 hours, 5 minutes ago


OLDSMAR, Fla. - And some people get jittery about mice in the kitchen.
Sandra Frosti, a 69-year-old central Floridian, found an 8-foot long alligator prowling in her kitchen late Monday night, authorities said.


Frosti said the gator must have pushed through the back porch screen door and then went inside through an open sliding glass door at her home in Oldsmar, just north of Tampa. It then apparently strolled through the living room, down a hall and into the kitchen.

A trapper with Animal Capture of Florida removed the alligator, which was cut by a plate that was knocked to the ground during the chaos. But no one inside the house was injured.

[bert8for3]

What a great excuse though ... "Dear, no I haven't done the dishes 'cause there's an alligator in the kitchen". :rotfl:

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by bert8for3

What a great excuse though ... "Dear, no I haven't done the dishes 'cause there's an alligator in the kitchen". :rotfl:

I'm pretty sure I couldn't get away with this one. I'd still have to do the dishes!

-S

[Blacklight]

I lived in Florida for a while. Our house was near a canal where gators liked to hang. They always came up and basked in the sun on the paved street in front of our house. Sometimes, we'd have to shoo them off the road to get our car down the street. They were pretty skittish of us and if we approached them, they would just walk off back into the water. You didn't want to have a pet dog or let your toddler play unattended in that neighborhood though. The gators stayed out of the yards. The farthest they would go away from the water would be the street. They really steered clear of the homes and people.

[Platapus]

One more reason I don't think Florida is the place for me.

Gators in the kitchen is a bit much

[NEON DEON]

The kids can have new excuse now.

The alligator ate my homework!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

I lived in Florida for a while. Our house was near a canal where gators liked to hang. They always came up and basked in the sun on the paved street in front of our house. Sometimes, we'd have to shoo them off the road to get our car down the street. They were pretty skittish of us and if we approached them, they would just walk off back into the water. You didn't want to have a pet dog or let your toddler play unattended in that neighborhood though. The gators stayed out of the yards. The farthest they would go away from the water would be the street. They really steered clear of the homes and people.

Belts, bags, wallets and shoes etc must have been very reasonably priced in the shops around those parts then

[nikimcbee]

They showed it on the news last night. Good thing she didn't have carpet or it would have been a fun time "dragging" that gator out.