Florida Woman Pulls Small Gator Out of Yoga Pants During Traffic Stop

[RandySF]

Call this a classic "only in Florida" moment.

Deputies in Charlotte County found dozens of reptiles in a man and woman's possession early Monday morning during a traffic stop in Punta Gorda, NBC affiliate WBBH-TV reports.

After being stopped for running through a stop sign, the couple told deputies they were coming from collecting frogs and snakes at an underpass nearby.

When deputies asked what kind of animals they collected, the woman opened her backpack at her feet, where there were over 40 small, three-striped turtles, according to WBBH.

When asked if she had anything else, the woman pulled a foot-long alligator from her yoga pants, Charlotte County Sheriff's officials said.



https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/Florida-Woman-Gator-in-Pants-Punta-Gorda-509561811.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_LABrand

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I don't think I want alligators in my yoga pants.

[scarletwoman]

3. I don't know, it's pretty badass, don't you think?

[3catwoman3]

7. It could be...

...very badass if the gator got pissed.

[lunatica]

9. Yeah! I bet not too many men would do that!

[lagomorph777]

19. Is that an alligator in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?

[JoeOtterbein]

2. OUCH! n/t

[dalton99a]

4. Ranks up there with 'Florida Woman Causes Accident While Shaving Genitals'

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/09/florida_crash/

[3catwoman3]

10. OMG, the comments are...

...ROTFLMAO hysterical.

[OneBro]

14. Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen

Oops! See above. 🧐

[OneBro]

15. Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen

This book opens with a woman who rear ends a guy then explains to him that she was shaving her privates on the way to a date. I remember wondering where Hiaasen gets his crazy ideas. Now I know: Art imitating life.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28185972-razor-girl

[3catwoman3]

20. While stopped at a traffic light some years ago, I glanced...

...to my right and saw a woman plucking out chin hairs while looking in her rear view mirror. I barely can stand to look at myself while doing that, let alone doing it in public.

[OneBro]

22. I'll go ya one better.

About 10 or so years ago I saw a woman putting on her make-up while driving and eating a breakfast sandwich, AND there was a small dog on her shoulder at the window. I started to take a picture but . . . I was driving.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Shouldn't this be under "Weird News?" Or is this just an everyday occurrence in Florida now?

[ProudLib72]

6. Front or rear of yoga pants?

Asking for a friend...

[sarcasmo]

8. Is this why the religious right thinks Yoga pants are the Devil's doing?

[Kid Berwyn]

11. She wore a gator belt.

For protection.

[Brother Buzz]

12. I caught a small gator in my yoga pants....

How he go in them I'll never know.

[BigmanPigman]

13. I sat on a live lizard in my bed last Fri

morning and I don't know who was more frightened. Thank god I had pajamas on at the time. A gator is a different story altogether...especially on purpose. YUK!

[Codeine]

18. Did the lizard live?

Is your memory foam mattress now plagued with images of reptiles?

[BigmanPigman]

21. I thought it was a wrinkle in my sheets.

After I got up and saw it on the floor I couldn't tell if it was dead since it was still. After I recovered from my heart attack I got a lid and put it on the lizard and peeked inside but couldn't see it...did it escape somehow? I slid a piece of cardboard under the lid and his tail popped out of the side and I accidentally cut it off with the lid and it twitched...yuk! I took it outside and took the lid off and it was still. I even went to get a camera and came back and it was STILL there. I didn't know that lizards play "possum". I poked it with a stick and he ran away. I am super paranoid about my bed still and check it out thoroughly.

Since then my friend told me she had a similar experience and cut the tail off of her lizard accidentally too. Once a neighbor had a 2 foot long lizard that was hiding behind a painting on the wall and his foot long tail was sticking out from the frame edge. He was too big for all the boxes he had around the house and had to leave on its own.

[jberryhill]

16. "the woman pulled a foot-long alligator from her yoga pants"

And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is why I stopped picking up dates in bars.

[Danascot]

17. Are you happy to see me or ...

Holy Shit!