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Florida Officer Delivers Pizza After 8-Foot Alligator Blocks Driveway

A Bradenton police officer stepped in to help a delivery driver too scared to approach a home due to a massive alligator under a car.

  • An 8-foot alligator disrupted a pizza delivery in a Bradenton, Florida neighborhood, prompting a call to local police.
  • Officer Tolson of the Bradenton Police Department arrived on the scene and found the reptile hiding under a customer's car.
  • The delivery driver, frightened by the gator, asked the officer to deliver the pizza to the customer's back door, which he agreed to do.
  • Body camera footage captured the officer warning the customer, who unknowingly stepped outside, to return indoors for her safety.
  • Florida Fish and Wildlife officials later relocated the alligator, ensuring the neighborhood's safety.
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