In a sight that bears a striking similarity to the sewer scene from the supernatural horror film ‘It’, a large alligator was noticed peeking out from a storm drain in Florida.
The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office mentioned deputies responded to report of the alligator stuck inside the storm drain on Monday morning. Deputies arrived at the scene – a street in the city of Venice – to support the six-foot alligator totally free itself.
“Imagine coming across this bad boy on your morning jog!!” the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook though sharing a photograph of the gator. The image shows the reptile’s head inside the storm drain exactly where it had managed to lodge itself. “Deputies responded to south Venice this morning to help this approximately 6′ alligator free himself from a storm drain,” they added.
The image has gone viral on Facebook, racking up more than 1,000 ‘shares’ and dozens of comments.
“Pennywise the alligator. Where’s his red balloon?” asked on Facebook user, though an additional mentioned, “That’s almost as bad as coming across Pennywise from IT.”
According to the Sheriff’s Office, the gator was freed when deputies lifted the concrete slab on leading of it. A trapper was known as but did not respond, so the alligator was permitted to go totally free. It returned safely to the lake from which it had wandered.
Alligators are not an uncommon sight in Florida – the US state has an alligator population of roughly 1.25 million.