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Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 | 6:27 a.m.

Updated: 12:53 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, 2007 | Posted: 12:48 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, 2007

Feisty Alligator Pulled From Central Florida YMCA Pool

 

COCOA, Fla. —

One woman had her workout cut short when a critter decided to go for an early morning dip Friday.

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A 4-foot gator was found at the bottom of the YMCA pool on Clearlake Road in Cocoa. The lifeguard had to quickly stop a woman before she got into the water with the temperamental swimmer.

"She goes, 'That's not a gator.' We kept walking and, sure enough, she goes, 'Oh my God, that's a gator!'" said lifeguard Tim Phiopot.

Ironically, the swimmer is an Auburn fan and she was wearing an anti-Gators shirt in honor of Saturday's Florida-Auburn game.

Trappers were brought in to remove the small reptile.

 

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