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A passerby captured the wild moment a father and son worked together to fight off a huge alligator on a Florida highway.
Travis Graves and his nine-year-old son, Travis Graves II, captured the nine-foot-long alligator in Jacksonville on Monday.
The father put an impressive collar on the creature and let his son help him secure it for transport, with the goal of teaching the boy to one day be able to catch them on his own.
“In recent years we have started letting him participate in catching alligators instead of watching and learning when he was younger,” the father said. The Florida Times Union.
“It’s still a long way from being able to jump on alligators, but we’re trying to make it as practical as possible to be safe.”
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was called to Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway to relocate the alligator trapped in the roadway.
Travis Graves and his nine-year-old son, Travis Graves II, faced off against a nine-foot-long alligator on April 1.
The boy’s parents said everyone in their family catches alligators (that’s how the couple met) and the 9-year-old has been learning to fight them all his life.
The 36-year-old father let his son hold the stick around the animal’s neck.
The father led the alligator to a grassy median and began spinning it in what is often called a kill roll, which is a spinning maneuver that subdues prey.
Officers attempted to corner the beast off the road with their cars, but it ended up crawling under a police cruiser.
That’s when Graves, 36, a contractor for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and his young son pounced with his long fishing rod.
The elder Graves was able to place the noose on the end of the pole around the alligator’s neck and pull it out from under the vehicle and off the road.
He led the alligator to a grassy median and began spinning it in what is often called a kill roll, which is a spinning maneuver that subdues prey.
Graves wrapped the pole around a street sign and then called his 9-year-old son to help him.
“We would never put him or any of our children in danger, and he is not allowed to help unless we have the situation under full control and he is instructed to come help, as you can see in the video,” he said. saying.
The younger Graves held the trapping pole around the animal’s neck while their father sat on top of the alligator and began to close its mouth.
After beginning to wrap duct tape around the alligator’s mouth, the young father allowed his son to help him finish the job.
The boy helped his father wrap duct tape around the alligator’s mouth.
The father put an impressive collar on the creature and let his son help him secure it for transport, with the goal of teaching the boy to one day be able to catch them on his own.
Once the animal was fully secured, Graves backed his car into the median and opened his trunk to transport the alligator.
He picked up the colossal creature and installed it in his Volkswagen Jetta TDI, which Graves said can hold alligators up to three meters long.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission confirmed to The Florida Times-Union that the animal was taken to an alligator farm.
The boy’s parents said everyone in their family catches alligators (that’s even how the couple met) and the 9-year-old has been learning to fight them his whole life.
‘He started learning the ropes from day one, literally. The day my wife and I left the hospital with my son, before taking him home we went straight out and caught an alligator. So you can say that he has literally been doing it since he was born,” the father said.