Man wrestles alligator at the zoo potentially saving handlers life TikTok: @davefranksTikToker Dave Franks went viral after uploading a video where a man jumps into an alligator enclosure to help a handler trapped by an animal. A TikTok video featuring a potentially deadly alligator incident from June 5 has picked up over 48.5 million views. The caption featured in the video reads: \u201cGuest saved alligator handler at the zoo.\u201d In the footage, an alligator handler gets her hand caught by the animal during feeding, the alligator proceeds to drag the handler toward the water, and once in it, the animal barrel rolls violently, yanking the handler underwater. At that point, zoo guests who were watching the feeding realize that something went wrong, and one of them screams out \u201cWe\u2019ve got a problem over here,\u201d trying to get other staff member\u2019s attention. The same man tries to pull the handler away from the water before she instructs the man to mount the animal to prevent it from being able to freely move. The man heroically jumps into the water and does as the handler asked, potentially saving her arm or even her life. TikTok reacts to a man saving a zookeeper from an alligator TikTok users in the comments section commended the man\u2019s bravery for putting himself in danger without hesitation to help the alligator handler. \u201cWow, that man was at the right place at the right time,\u201d wrote one user. And another agrees by stating: \u201cThat\u2019s a hero, right there!\u201d Eventually, the handler managed to free her hand and got dragged away by another bystander, the man sitting on top of the alligator was then instructed to keep the animal\u2019s mouth closed and to slowly rise to his feet and get out of the enclosure, which he successfully does in the end. While the story went viral on TikTok just a couple of days ago, it\u2019s worth noting that it\u2019s simply a repost of a clip that circulated the media and the internet since 2021. Thankfully no one was seriously hurt, as all parties got away from the alligator\u2019s enclosure on their own two feet. For more viral videos and stories related to entertainment, be sure to check out our coverage on Dexerto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Man wrestles alligator at the zoo potentially saving handlers life TikTok: @davefranksTikToker Dave Franks went viral after uploading a video where a man jumps into an alligator enclosure to help a handler trapped by an animal. A TikTok video featuring a potentially deadly alligator incident from June 5 has picked up over 48.5 million views. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}