Alligator Sewer Video: Watch 9-Foot Reptile Get Pulled Out Of Storm Drain In Florida

The Florida Gators may be playing in the NCAA March Madness tournament Friday in New York City, but on Monday, one was stuck in a gutter in Tampa Bay.

Facebook user John Ruel posted a video this week of a trapper yanking an alligator by its tail out of a storm drain in Oldsmar, Florida, Fox 13 Tampa Bay reported. The clip quickly went viral in the Sunshine State, likely due to its being the latest in a series of incidents involving giant gators in normal life.

"Not something you see every day in the neighborhood!" Ruel wrote in the caption of the video.

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The gator in the Monday clip was trying to climb out of a storm drain, Ruel wrote on Facebook, when he got stuck. The human estimated the reptile was about 9 feet long and said he didn't think it would be euthanized.

"The trapper tried to pull him out, but his girth was too big," Ruel added. "So he had to push him backwards that [sic] pull him out through the manhole. I'm happy he was able to rescue him."

A number of alligator-related videos and headlines have spread on social media over the past year, most of them from Florida. Last June, a 2-year-old was dragged into a man-made lake by a gator at Disney World in Orlando; by January, focus was on a 12-foot gator caught on film sauntering across a golf course in Palmetto. Last month, the Sunshine State shared the love with South Carolina, where residents found an orange gator and nicknamed it after the president.

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Florida has about 1.3 million alligators, and they've caused the state to have quite the reputation even though only about 400 people have been bitten there since 1948.

"Alligators give Florida its wild edge. They are dinosaurs living in an otherwise modern, civilized state," Tampa Bay Times reporter Jeff Klinkenberg wrote years ago. "You can attend the symphony tonight and be devoured while taking a swim tomorrow."