2 Crazy Crocodile Stories...

A 2-foot pet alligator escaped from its backyard enclosure, but was captured by a girl who used what she learned on a nature TV program. Nicki Hilliard (a teenager) and several friends saw the animal swimming in the Allegheny River.

Hilliard said she learned how to catch the animals safely by watching the television show "Crocodile Hunter." The secret is to grab the animal's snout and hold its mouth closed.

The kids put the animal in a beverage cooler and took it to the police station, where it was locked inside a cell until owner Belinda Thomson arrived to claim it.

Watch this video of an alligator found during drug raid:

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