BRADENTON, Fla. (WSVN) — A police officer doubled as a pizza delivery driver when an alligator appeared in front of a home in Bradenton.
Officials were responding to reports of an eight-foot-long alligator in a neighborhood on Sunday.
A pizza delivery driver got to the area first; however, she was too scared to make the delivery and asked the officer to do it.
“Do you want to do it officer?” said the delivery woman.
As the officer made his way toward the house, the hungry homeowner opened her front door and walked outside, just a few feet from the gator in her driveway.
Even though she was amazed by the animal, she was still focused on her food.
“Hey ma’am, could you get in the house?,” said the officer.
“Where’s my pizza?” said the homeowner.
“I’ll take it to the back door,” said the officer.
The officer delivered the pizza and got the money to give it back to the delivery woman.
But before he left, the homeowner had an additional request.
“When was the alligator there?” asked the homeowner.
“It just got there,” said the officer.
“Oh, I’d like to take a picture of it,” said the homeowner.
So the officer took the woman’s phone to snap a photo for her.
Florida Fish and Wildlife officials later safely relocated the gator away from the neighborhood.
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