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Students were kept in their classrooms as the trapper wrangled the reptile.

"Our students received a good Polk County education today: how to trap a nine foot, 11-inch gator," the school posted on Facebook.

Other videos of the capture were also posted to Facebook.

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Tom Cousins, then president and CEO of Cousins Properties, looks out from his office to the former CNN Center. Cousins built the property as one of his many Atlanta development projects. (Andy Sharp/AJC FILE)

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