COCOA, Fla. – Need any more evidence that it’s Friday the 13th in the year 2020?
“The things that go bump in the night: patrol officers rescued this little guy as he wandered into dangerous territory,” the Cocoa Police Department wrote in a tweet. “He was hit by a car on US1 at Dixon Blvd. He was fine and the driver was not injured.”
A driver in Cocoa ran over an alligator that wandered onto U.S. 1, police tweeted Friday.
“The things that go bump in the night: patrol officers rescued this little guy as he wandered into dangerous territory. He was hit by a car on US1 at Dixon Blvd.,” Cocoa police said.
Luckily, the driver and the alligator are OK, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is finding the gator a “safer place to roam,” police in the city of Cocoa say.
“We hope he finds a safer place to roam,” police said.