PALMETTO BAY, Fla. (WSVN) – A man in Palmetto Bay got quite the scare thanks to a crab with more than just sharp claws in his own backyard.
Video posted on Instagram captured the bizarre encounter between the man, his dog and a blade-wielding crab, captioned “Florida is getting outta hand.”
“I went inside for a little bit, I hear my dog barking and barking, and then I’m like, ‘What the heck is that?'” said homeowner Eduardo Alvarez.
The video showed the Alvarez’s dog, “Summer,” sniffing at the crab before it flashed a blade in its right claw.
“Dude are you… are you kidding me right now?” Alvarez said in the video.
When he tried to pick up the crab, it swung at him with both the shank and its big claw.
“At first I saw it, and I saw something in his hand and I was like ‘What?'” said Alvarez. “And then I noticed it was like a shank from one of my blades in my garage.”
He eventually managed to carefully get a hold of the animal and took it into his backyard, dropping it off at some bushes.
“I just grabbed it by the big claw,” said Alvarez. “I didn’t know that thing could come around and try to shank me, but I’m quick, that’s why they call me fast Eddy, so I just grabbed it by the claw and just took him out there, and he went off on its way. I didn’t want to kill it. I thought about cooking it, but my wife wouldn’t be too happy.”
Neither he nor Summer were hurt in the confrontation.
Alvarez says he sees a lot of different animals in his backyard, from birds to reptiles, but he’s never seen anything quite like a crab with a weapon.
“We catch a lot of peacocks out here, a bunch of crazy, like, weird exotic fish,” said Alvarez. “You have all the iguanas, very exotic lizards, snakes. It’s a cool place to live.”
Alvarez’s uploaded video of the incident now has millions of views.
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