Mike Trinh is a father, restaurant owner, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt & MMA fighter, so when an alligator was right outside their front door he took matters into his own hands.
Trinh didn’t want to let the gator keep him from taking his kids to school, so he went full Crocdile-Hunter Steve Irwin-style.
“I woke up this morning groggy. I’m ready to just take my kids to school. It’s my daughter’s first day in middle school,” Trinh said. “So she runs back [and says], ‘Dad! There’s an alligator in the front door!’ I’m thinking she’s joking... not wanting to go to school. I say, ‘Just stop! We’re going to school today. Just stop.”
Little did he know, she was right…
His inspiration and unofficial education?
“Steve Irwin,” Trinh said, smiling.
Watching hours and hours of the iconic wildlife expert, nicknamed “The Crocodile Hunter,” Trinh said he remembered what Irwin did on the shows.
“You just know you got to put the towel over [the alligator’s] head,” Trinh said. “That’ll calm it down.”