MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — So, this baby gator walks into a gas station …
It sounds like a beginning of a bad barroom joke, but attendants at a gasoline station in South Florida were not amused when the reptile strolled into their building early Tuesday, WPLG reported.
**YOU HAVE A WHAT IN WHERE???**
— Miami Gardens Police Dept. (@MGPDFL) October 16, 2018
Miami Gardens PD dispatch had to make sure they heard it right!
The call came in the middle of the night of a small gator inside a gas station. Thankfully officer Blanco & officer Velez are skilled wildlife handlers.... pic.twitter.com/X9g1kismsO
"You have a what in where?" the dispatcher at the Miami Gardens Police Department responded to the caller that reported the alligator at a Marathon gas station around 1 a.m., the department said in a tweet.
On its Twitter feed, Miami Gardens police shared photographs of officers Bryan Blanco and Victor Velez posing with the baby gator.
"Thankfully officer Blanco & officer Velez are skilled wildlife handlers," the tweet read.
Blanco and Velez, both skilled wildlife handlers, removed the small reptile, WPLG reported.
After receiving a recommendation from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the police department returned the alligator to its natural habitat, the television station reported.
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