Footage Shows A Massive Alligator Sneaking Into A Naval Air Station In FL By Climbing A Damn Fence

I think it’s officially time to quarantine the state of Florida from the rest of the United States of America. I say this with a heavy heart because as a born and raised Floridian I don’t want to be cut off from the rest of the country, but I think we’ve reached a point where the ridiculous animals in the Sunshine State pose a serious safety risk to the rest of the nation.

Sure, other states have alligators. Despite modern technology being able to land a man on the moon and figure out of a planet has water from a bazillion miles away, experts still don’t know if the state of Florida or Louisiana has more alligators. But Florida also has a shit ton of sharks.

Just a week or two ago, three swimmers were bitten by sharks within three days. There was also this guy who was bitten by a shark and instead of going to the hospital he went to the bar for free drinks.

The mere existence of alligators isn’t a problem at all. I have a lake in my backyard and it’s not uncommon to see an alligator in there. Back in H.S., I shit you not, I found a 5-foot alligator in the bathroom when someone had left the door propped open. They’re everywhere. But until now I had no idea that they were capable of sneaking onto secure military property by scaling fences.

Some footage was captured of a large alligator climbing the fence at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, a military airport in Jacksonville that is home to quite a few aviation units. Apparently, the MP’s didn’t think this alligator posed an immediate threat because I don’t hear any guns going off to stop this intruder from gaining entry to the Naval Air Station. It’s also pretty alarming just how quickly this large adult gator goes up and over that fence. This clearly wasn’t that alligator’s first rodeo:

Action News Jax reports:

The military guards and fortified gates that keep intruders out of Naval Air Station Jacksonville didn’t stop an alligator from scaling a roadside fence Saturday morning.
Christina Stewart stopped to film the gator claw its way up a fence before belly-flopping onto the grass and continuing on its way.
Officials with NAS Jacksonville said they don’t plan on removing the alligator from the base unless he poses a danger to residents. (via)

It seems like a shame that nothing is going to come of this. The gator is already on the military grounds, why don’t we weaponize it? There are millions of alligators across the Southeastern United States and we haven’t taken the time to put some frickin’ laser beams on their heads yet like Dr. Evil would, or teach them to swim into underwater terrorist bases.

With millions of gators out there the odds are in our favor, surely there’s a handful that are smart enough to become super soldiers. It just seems like a waste to leave them lazily swimming around the swamps when they could do their part keeping America safe.