7-foot alligator crawls up to woman’s front door

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — A Myrtle Beach woman received the surprise of her life Tuesday night when she and her 14-year-old son were preparing for bed and noticed a 7-foot, 100-pound alligator sitting outside their front door, WMBF reports. They were getting ready for bed when the family dog began barking. That’s when Mandy Johnson-Plucinski turned on the porch light and saw the alligator peering at them through the closed door. Shocked, she called the Department of Natural Resources