An eight-foot alligator celebrated Labor Day by wandering onto a highway in Texas.
The gator was spotted in Sugar Land on the lanes of Highway 6, just north of Highway 90 on Monday night, according to WTSP.
Local police snapped a photo of the beast before relocating it to safety.
‘Looks like this eight-foot fella didn’t get the memo about Labor Day last night,’ the Sugar Land Police Department posted on Facebook.
‘Not your typical holiday traffic stop, but rest assured our VIP was safely escorted off the road and back into a suitable habitat.’
Viewers on social media took the opportunity to crack jokes about the massive reptile.
‘I heard he was following a chicken to see why he crossed the road,’ one commenter wrote.
‘He was just trying to get to the airport to take his labor day vacation flight,’ another quipped.
A third commenter chimed in: ‘He’s an investi-gator. Doing his job.’
An eight-foot gator was spotted crossing over a highway in Sugar Land, Texas on Labor Day
Alligators have a history of mingling with drivers across the South
Alligators in Texas are most active during spring and summer, particularly at dusk and dawn when they hunt.
It was not the first time an alligator stopped traffic in the Lone Star State, as an 11-foot gator did the same in 2018.
The reptiles seem to love mingling with drivers across the South. An eight-foot gator stopped traffic during a flood in Florida in 2019.
That same year, a 12-foot gator caused a traffic accident in Florida after it wandered onto the road and was hit by a semi-truck.
Internationally, traffic has also been brought to a standstill by other animals like a goat in England, an elephant in Thailand and even a herd of 3,000 reindeer in Siberia.
