A local legend was called in to an animal incident alongside a Florida highway when an alligator had to be removed and it was all caught on video.
A gator was on the median of Interstate 95 in Jacksonville and it had to be moved.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, along with Florida Fish & Wildlife and Florida Highway Patrol, called in an expert to get the gator to its proper location.
Mike Dragich, nicknamed Blue Collar Brawler, came and wrestled the gator off the highway, all while barefoot and as traffic zoomed by.
The sheriff’s office shared the video of the roadside gator wrangling on Facebook.
He did need a bit of help lugging the animal to his pickup nearby, loading it into the truck’s bed.
Dragich also posted the video with the obvious caption, “Why did the alligator cross the road?”
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