Over the last few months I have had the opportunity of working security at one of the local gated communities. The other day I had an interesting thing happen. After getting to work, I received a phone call from a homeowner who stated that a large alligator was on her porch. I responded to the house to discover that it was “Big Bertha,” the second largest gator on the plantation. In the middle of the night the 8 foot gator entered their yard and climbed the nine stairs onto the porch and got cornered and disoriented. When I arrived, the gator was in a very defensive mode and I had the exciting privilege of getting to catch it. I called for assistance and we were able to remove it from the porch and relocate it.

While I was on the back of the gator and feeling the power of this amazing creature, there was something that never crossed my mind.