An alligator blocking his doorstep was no obstacle for one Texas dad making sure his daughter got to her first day of middle school on time.
Mike Trinh, who owns and operates a seafood restaurant in Houston, thought his youngest daughter Caitlyn was joking when she told him there was an alligator outside their front door, according to CNN affiliate KPRC-TV."It's my youngest daughter's first day in middle school," wrote Trinh in a Facebook post describing his close encounter."As she's about to go to the car, she runs back saying there's an alligator at the front door. I'm thinking she's playing.
" He threw a towel on the alligator's head to calm it down,"so I can take the kids to school," he wrote. Then he got on the gator's back, held its mouth closed, and enlisted his 19-year-old daughter to tape its mouth shut with duct and jiu-jitsu tape.Trinh and a friend then loaded the alligator in the back of a truck and released it into a nearby pond, reports KPRC-TV.The amateur alligator wrangler said that he's glad his daughters got photos of the encounter.