A South Florida man jumped into a backyard swimming pool to get an 8-foot, 8-inch alligator out of the water. Gator Boys‘ Paul Bedard posted a photo on Instagram of himself hoisting the gator above his head after he wrestled with it in the water. Bedard said he got a call in the morning that the gator walked through the pool screen and into the pool behind a home in Parkland. “I haven't had a good-sized gator in a swimming pool in probably a year, so I was kind of looking forward to this when I got the call,” Bedard said. Bedard said the alligator was mellow and didn't give him a hard time at all.

A South Florida man jumped into a backyard swimming pool to get an 8-foot, 8-inch alligator out of the water.

Gator Boys‘ Paul Bedard posted a photo on Instagram of himself hoisting the gator above his head after he wrestled with it in the water.


Bedard said he got a call in the morning that the gator walked through the pool screen and into the pool behind a home in Parkland.

“I haven't had a good-sized gator in a swimming pool in probably a year, so I was kind of looking forward to this when I got the call,” Bedard said.

Bedard said the alligator was mellow and didn't give him a hard time at all.