{"id":3133,"date":"2025-08-05T14:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/deputy-uses-bare-hands-to-wrangle-alligator-out-of-st-augustine-florida-residents-swimming-pool\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T14:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:43:18","slug":"deputy-uses-bare-hands-to-wrangle-alligator-out-of-st-augustine-florida-residents-swimming-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/deputy-uses-bare-hands-to-wrangle-alligator-out-of-st-augustine-florida-residents-swimming-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy uses bare hands to wrangle alligator out of St. Augustine, Florida, resident&#039;s swimming pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-08-05 14:43:16<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A deputy used his bare hands to wrangle an alligator out of a swimming pool.<BR><br \/>\nOn Sunday (08.02.25), St. Johns County Sheriff&#8217;s Office in St. Augustine, Florida, USA, shared a video on Facebook that showed Deputy Richardson removing the angry beast from a resident&#8217;s swimming pool.<BR><br \/>\nAfter he caught the alligator, Deputy Richardson buckled up the creature in the back seat of his car and took the alligator to a nearby pond that is not surrounded by residential properties.<BR><br \/>\nCaptioning the Facebook video post, St. Johns County Sheriff&#8217;s Office wrote: &#8220;ONLY IN FLORIDA<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;#TeamSJSO responded to help remove an unexpected guest from a backyard pool in St. Augustine! <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The alligator wasn\u2019t happy its pool time was over or about the ride in the patrol car, but it was buckled in and safely relocated to a nearby pond by Deputy Richardson.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-08-05 14:43:16 A deputy used his bare hands to wrangle an alligator out of a swimming pool. On Sunday (08.02.25), St. Johns County Sheriff&#8217;s Office in St. Augustine, Florida, USA,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3135,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions\/3135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}