Shock As Woman Wades Through Alligator-Infested Waters to Take Out Trash

Taking the trash out is everyone's least favorite household task, but for one woman in Georgia, the chore comes with some added life-threatening complications.

In a video shared on TikTok in April, under the username southernadventurehunter, a 47-year-old woman from Pierce County revealed the challenges she faces every time she takes out the trash, leaving the internet in a state of shock.

"Come with me to take out the trash?!" a caption shared with the clip read, as the poster shows step-by-step everything she has to do to carry out this seemingly simple task in her flooding-prone neighborhood.

"Step one, get your gator waders. Step two, get your chihuahua. Step three, load the trash," she can be heard saying.

After putting on her waders and tucking her pup inside, she then heads to the driveway, which becomes a swamp every time it floods. She then loads the waste bags onto a canoe to reach the main road, where she'll then get on a four-wheeler to finally meet the neighborhood's waste disposal can.

"We made it! Now let's do it all again," she can be heard saying, before repeating the steps in reverse to go home.

The poster, Katie, told Newsweek that this is the routine every time her driveway gets flooded. "I'm not afraid of gators, just mindful," she continued.

There are approximately 200,000-250,000 alligators in the state of Georgia, usually found in marshes, swamps, rivers and farm ponds.

While it is rare for gators to display unprovoked aggressive behaviors toward humans, unless they are starved, they can turn very violent when feeling threatened.

Georgia Wildlife said that from 1980 to 2023, there were only nine reported cases of alligator attacks on humans in the state, including one fatality in 2007, and all attacks happened because of humans trying to make contact with the animal.

Katie's video quickly went viral on social media, getting viewers from across TikTok. It has so far received over 9.5 million views and 960,200 likes on the platform.

One user, Reyna, commented: "As soon as you said step one was getting your "gator waders" I knew we were in for a ride."

Stephanie Marie said: "TikTok really shows me all the different ways of living, I'll never complain about valet trash lol."

Embellina wrote: "The way my house would just be full of trash bags." And Kaylas.indigo added: "This is like the route Barbie had to take to get to the real world."

Another user, Ahwesomesauce, commented: "The exact route our grandparents had to take to get to school back in the old days....or so they say."

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