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Whoa! Woman finds 8-foot alligator in kitchen

69-year-old Floridian spots animal after it pushes through porch screen

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  ‘There’s an alligator in my kitchen’
April 23: Talk about home invasion: A Florida woman heard a noise in her kitchen — and found it was made by an 8-foot alligator. Sandie Frosti tells her amazing story in a TODAY exclusive.

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updated 9:44 a.m. ET April 22, 2008

OLDSMAR, Fla. - And some people get jittery about mice in the kitchen.

Sandra Frosti, a 69-year-old central Floridian, found an 8-foot long alligator prowling in her kitchen late Monday night, authorities said.

Frosti said the gator must have pushed through the back porch screen door and then went inside through an open sliding glass door at her home in Oldsmar, just north of Tampa. It then apparently strolled through the living room, down a hall and into the kitchen.

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A trapper with Animal Capture of Florida removed the alligator, which was cut by a plate that was knocked to the ground during the chaos. But no one inside the house was injured.

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