7-foot gator enters a school
June 8th, 2010 - 11:11 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
A 7-foot gator entered the Stewart Middle School on Monday at around 7 am. The school is located on the western bank of the mighty Hillsborough River, which flows just north of Interstate 275.
The alligator was spotted at the entrance of the cafeteria of the Stewart Middle School. Fortunately the gator turned up for school a bit early, as the students weren’t there because the classes start in the school at 7:30 am. After the discovery, the students were barred from that building totally.
The school authorities managed to contain the gator in the hallway of a school. “They discovered it before students arrived for school and kept students away from that building,” according to the Hillsborough County School District spokeswoman Linda Cobbe.
Later the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Officer Jon Saltzgaver used his expertise to catch the gator, and they managed to successfully remove it from the school, before it could harm anyone.
Later the gator was handed over to a trapper who would euthanize it. The wildlife experts believe that the gator entered the school over the weekend, and was discovered on Monday, when the school reopened again. “He probably went in there after school (Friday), but before the gates were shut,” according to the wildlife commission spokesman Gary Morse.
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