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12-foot alligator hauled out of ditch in suburban Houston: “Good catch, guys!”

12-foot alligator hauled out of ditch in suburban Houston: “Good catch, guys!”

MONT BELVIEU, Texas – A southeast Texas suburb near Houston took significant steps to safely relocate a 12-foot-long alligator that had taken up residence in a roadside ditch.

Teams from the town of Mont Belvieu used a grapple truck on Monday to safely extract the alligator, as shown in a video of the operation posted on social media by the town.

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Authorities in Mont Belvieu, a suburb of Houston in southeast Texas, used a grapple truck to remove a 12-foot-long alligator that had taken up residence in a roadside ditch.Authorities in Mont Belvieu, a suburb of Houston in southeast Texas, used a grapple truck to remove a 12-foot-long alligator that had taken up residence in a roadside ditch.

Authorities in Mont Belvieu, a suburb of Houston in southeast Texas, used a grapple truck to remove a 12-foot-long alligator that had taken up residence in a roadside ditch.

The city said the successful capture of the alligators “was truly a team effort,” with staff from the city’s public works and animal control departments participating.

“See you later, alligator!” the city wrote in the message. “Good catch, guys!”

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