Alligator knocks on the door for Thanksgiving dinner. ‘Do you smell turkey?’ woman asks
An alligator came to dinner on Thanksgiving but not, in a Florida twist, on the plate as the main course.
No, this Fort Myers family had the traditional turkey on Thursday.
And, according to CBS4 and other reports, a nine-foot alligator must have thought the juicy bird and fixin’s Chhaya Beharry had set before the family was tastier than anything it could find in the surrounding lakes of the neighborhood.
So the gator banged on the family’s front door.
“He was hissing and swinging his tail around,” Beharry said on CBS4. “And I looked through the window and sure enough there’s a gigantic alligator and his tail was just smacking my door.”
Beharry’s fiancé called Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to come out and wrangle the gator — no easy task, when a nine-foot, 180-pound Florida creature decides it wants the Thanksgiving turkey, WBBH NBC2 News reported.
“I’m like, ‘Why my house? Do you smell turkey?’ ” Beharry told reporters.
This story was originally published November 29, 2019 at 12:54 PM.
