Amazing photo: Kids watch 10-foot gator stroll across lawn

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There was a little too much excitement in a residential area of Goose Creek, S.C., Thursday morning when a 10-foot alligator was spotted walking across a lawn and toward kids who were walking to their school bus.

Sonya Gilreath told WTVM  she heard someone yelling outside and then heard the sound of a car that had driven up onto her lawn to get between the gator and the schoolchildren.

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Meawhile, Gilreath said, her 3-year-old daughter, Lyla, summed it all up:

“That’s a big, giant alligator,” Lyla said.