Florida woman Ariel Machan-Le Quire pulls alligator from her yoga pants at traffic stop
- Also in the car was a backpack that contained 41 small turtles
When a Florida law enforcement officer asked a woman whether she had anything else on her during a routine traffic stop, he wasn’t expecting what she did next.
She “proceeded to pull an alligator out of her yoga pants (about one foot in length) and placed it into the bed of the truck”, the Charlotte County Sheriff’s deputy said in an incident report.
The bizarre encounter took place at about 3:30am on Monday in Punta Gorda.
Deputies were stationed on Tamiami Trail conducting traffic enforcement when they spotted a blue pickup truck that didn’t stop at a stop sign, according to the incident report.
The deputy asked for the driving licence, car registration and insurance card. The driver, Michael Clemons, 22, told deputies he and his passenger, Ariel Machan-Le Quire, 25, were trying to collect frogs and snakes from under the overpass.
The deputy then asked permission to search the bags in the truck to make sure “they did not collect any wildlife they were not supposed to have”, the deputy wrote in the report.
Clemons consented and all of his bags had clothes and other personal items, the deputy said. Machan-Le Quire then gave permission to search her backpack, which was on the floor near her, according to the report.