800lb alligator sent to reserve after shopping centre visit

An alligator dubbed Godzilla who tips the scales at more than 800lb is being taken to a gator reserve to live out his days, after being found wandering outside a Texas shopping centre.



Godzilla was discovered on Saturday by people arriving for work at the centre in the Sugar Land area of Houston. It’s believed he wandered over to the plaza from a nearby creek.





Christy Kroboth is licensed by the state as a “nuisance alligator trapper”. She was called to help subdue Godzilla and take him away.


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She said once he was muzzled and restrained, a forklift was borrowed from Home Depot to load him on to a truck. Kroboth said Godzilla is blind in one eye and has only partial sight in the other. He was being taken to the reserve for his safety.