8-foot Alligator vs. Police

Today an 8-foot alligator held up highway traffic in San Antonio, Texas. The police that arrived on the scene didn't know what to do with the alligator. They tried to scare it off the road with their sirens, but that didn't work. So the next logical step was - to do what any guy would do - throw things at it. The police threw orange traffic cones at the alligator. Which also did not work, the alligator just bit the cones - and the patrol car's bumper. Finally the police led the alligator off the road and into a drainage ditch with a lasso and a metal pole.

Did they really think that hitting a EIGHT FOOT alligator with soft plastic traffic cones would work? That is funny, I wish that there was a video to go with the article.

Here is the story:
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=bizarre&id=5258236