If Florida isn't the proudest state in the union, it should be: It's got a noble tradition of Florida men and women doing very Florida things, such as shouting "Dicks out for Harambe!" to welcome a hurricane, and dumping sewage in a 7-11 as part of a revenge plot.

But the good people of Florida aren't done making bizarre headlines, as a man who took an alligator into a convenience store during an otherwise routine beer-run might be the most Florida thing to occur this summer. Well, it wasn't so routine, actually: Robby Stratton ran into a convenience store holding an alligator, luckily with its mouth taped shut, and then darted throughout the aisles for no apparent reason. Stratton's objective was clear, if not a little poorly executed: according to local news reports, he asked the cashier "Y’all ain’t out of beer, are ya?" before taking his scaly swamp friend into the walk-in fridge to look for cases of beer.