Barefoot FL Man Seen On Video Capturing 8-Foot Alligator

JACKSONVILLE, FL — Barefoot, and with his bare hands, a Florida man is seen on video capturing an 8-foot alligator in Jacksonville.

Mike Dragich, who captured the alligator seen running toward authorities in the road, shared the video on Monday. (Watch the video on his Facebook page here.)

In a span of seven hours, the 27-second clip had gotten around 15,000 views on Facebook. Dragich captioned the post, "Florida man said 'hold my sweet tea.'"

Dragich, a mixed martial arts fighter and licensed alligator trapper, told Fox 35 Orlando he was at a hockey game over the weekend when he received the call about the alligator.

"It was only five minutes from the game, so I literally left the game, caught the alligator and then went back to the game," he told the outlet.

Dragich has shared on Facebook other instances where he has captured alligators, including in May 2023 when he went viral for removing a 10-foot alligator from an elementary school. As of Monday, the video received around 174,000 views.

Dragich told Fox 35 he felt like Batman both times.