A Giant Alligator Breaks Into A Florida Home, And The Photos Are Nightmarish
The homeowner went to investigate a crash at 3:30 a.m. and found the 11-foot reptile lying on her kitchen floor.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alligator-florida-home-kitchen_n_5cf17dace4b0a1997b6a427f
Well, this isn’t what you want to wake up to first thing in the middle of the night.
Mary Wischhusen, a 77-year-old woman from Clearwater, Florida, woke up around 3:30 a.m. Friday to use the bathroom when she heard a loud crash, the Tampa Bay Times reported. When she went to investigate, she found an aggressive 11-foot alligator on her kitchen floor.
“All I had was a vision of a huge head,” Wischhusen told the newspaper. “A big head looking at me saying, ‘Hey.’”
Wischhusen went to her bedroom and called 911, but, strangely enough, the authorities were already aware. Patricia Picor, who delivers the Tampa Bay Times to Wischhusen’s home saw the massive alligator on the street. She thinks that her car’s headlights startled the animal because it immediately tried to scurry away and squeeze into a nearby street drain. Unfortunately, it was too big to fit, so the frustrated gator headed toward Wischhusen’s front door and began to thrash around. Picor called the authorities.
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
And finally local news video:
= new reply since forum marked as read
or bears in Vermont... I have a tedious ritual every night to make sure the bears don't damage anything or kill my chickens/bees...
I have a small self-serve stand out front (produce, honey, handcrafted things, what have you...) I bring everything in at night but there must be some scent... night before last the bears tore doors off a cabinet and wreaked havoc 
that keeps them from my bees and chickens (every evening I check to make sure it's working) I bring hummingbird feeders in every night (can't put bird feeders out for other birds but I love my hummingbirds)… I pad lock the garage and shed and double check to make sure my back door is shut tight... no more compost at home (Vermont now requires compost bins at transfer stations)
unfortunately the fence around tents seems to make sense these days... I have a tent platform in my back woods for guests but nobody ever wants to take me up on the offer to use it... 
share and share alike, I guess. They are apparently pretty good at policing leash-laws for pets.
(big time pet lover here. No animals harmed in my choice of ironic comment... )
Neither avoiding an 11-foot gator or trying to outrun a cougar will be in my future, I sincerely hope.
for the wild rabbits to get to when the hawks, great horned owls, or the occasional coyote come through.
Well, he did pour the wine..........
That is one lucky lady.
