77A Pennsylvania fisherman unintentionally hooked an alligator in Magnolia Lake last week.
Ricky Sanchez of North Philadelphia was fishing in his kayak near Bristol Township on Aug. 6 when he snagged the crocodilian, according to WPVI-TV in Philadelphia.
“I hooked onto something and I brought it closer and I was like, ‘Oh no, that’s a gator. That’s definitely a gator. That cannot be here,’” Sanchez said.
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The small alligator thrashed hard before severing Sanchez’s fishing line, but not before he captured video on his cellphone.
“If I never recorded it, nobody’d believe this,” he said.
Following the incident, Bristol Township Police warned visitors in a Facebook post to use caution around Magnolia Lake.
The Aug. 7 post included two videos of the alligator that Sanchez
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