A police officer in Florida added “deliver” to the whole “serve and protect” motto … ’cause he took a pizza the last few hundred feet to a house after an alligator in the driveway terrified the delivery driver.
The incident went down in Bradenton — a suburb of Sarasota — earlier this week … when someone called the cops about a huge 8-foot-long alligator hanging out under a parked car in a residential neighborhood.
The responding officer — identified by the department as Officer Tolson — calls the Florida Fish and Wildlife department to remove the gator … but, before they arrive, a pizza deliverywoman comes up — with an order for the house with the gator in the driveway.
The deliverywoman is stopped on the street … and, the officer tells her she can probably go around back to deliver the food — but, she’s terrified and asks him to do it … and he agrees to take the pizza for her.
One of the neighbors calls and tells the woman who ordered the pizza not to come out front … but, she does anyway — and, the officer screams at her to get back inside ’cause she’s mere feet away from the huge reptile.
Eventually, Tolson meets the woman at the backdoor — who asks him how much she owes. He says he has no idea … and, then she realizes he’s not your average deliveryman.
Officer Tolson does one more favor for the woman in the house … taking a pic of the alligator for her. Eventually, the trappers come and haul the beast off — ending what is almost certainly Tolson’s strangest day in uniform … though it is Florida, after all.
We’re not sure if gators eat pizza … but, it seems everyone was lucky this beast didn’t try to eat them!
