Man arrested for alligator theme park stunt
A man was arrested for a dangerous stunt at a Florida theme park just for social media infamy.
Jacob Pursifull, 20, snuck into the alligator enclosure at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay .
He managed to scale fences to get into the enclosure.
Posting the footage to social media ultimately led to his downfall.
Police traced him from the posting and arrested him.
Pursifull ‘jumped over a fence to unlawfully enter the park’ and then entered the gator enclosure, Tampa PD said.
He was later released on bond.
The post went viral but has since been taken down.
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