Driver Terrified After Massive Gator Easily Moves His Truck

Daniel Jay Kaufman got a ride on the way home from work recently that he won’t soon forget.

The Venice, 🌴Florida, resident was stopped at a traffic light about 5 p.m. on April 7 when he noticed a Snap-on Tools van backing up on the opposite side of the highway and saw that traffic had come to a complete stop, according to The Miami Herald.

Then he saw it.

He watched as a 10-foot alligator slowly made its way across two lanes of traffic. Kaufman noticed the ponderous beast was missing a foot. He immediately began to record the event on his cell phone.

“Look at this beast! It’s like a 10-footer. Holy cow,” he says on the recording.

As the swamp monster was navigating his way over the divider, it was startled by now-moving Snap-On truck and made a beeline for Kaufman’s vehicle.

“Was wondering if he was going to try and get in through my window. Didn’t know what was going through his mind. I was in total shock at how big he was and how brave,” Kaufman told the Herald.

Kaufman said the enormous reptile hissed at him before disappearing underneath his truck.

“When he was probably three-quarters of the way under my box truck, I felt a little wiggle or shake from under truck,” Kaufman told the Herald.

Then the alligator, perhaps stuck and probably quite agitated, began shaking the truck. Kaufman is heard on his recording saying, “Just moved my truck. Are you kidding me?”

“By this time, the light is green and no cars were in front of me. I couldn’t move because I didn’t want to hurt him under my truck. For a second, I was thinking he might stay there.”