Police responded to a 911 call last week after workers at a Publix had an angry customer outside in their parking lot. Police speculated that the customer, an alligator, was removed despite its efforts to get a “Pub Sub.”
“Our officers recently helped relocate a gator who was spotted in the area,” the Pinellas Park Police Department shared on Facebook. “We can only speculate that he was on his way to pick up a PubSub.”
Police were able to subdue the alligator with the help of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Lt. Roxanne Pohl shared with the New York Post.
Pohl added that the gator was first spotted making its way down the sidewalk before it ended up in the grocery store parking lot. Pohl even added that while on its journey for one of the famed sandwiches, it was “follow[ing] all traffic laws.”
Photos shared in the Facebook post showed officers holding the animal in restraints before relocating it to a nearby body of water.
The extent of the gator’s hunger resulted in no one being injured, including the animal, the department shared.
The FWC recommends that to coexist with alligators, residents should never feed them, keep pets from the edges of lakes, ponds, and streams, and keep your distance while entering the bodies of water where the animals dwell.
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