Watch a brave Florida cop wrangle a baby gator with his bare hands

A Florida cop was recently seen bravely wading into a flooded yard to wrangle a gator in viral video that has his colleagues calling him "Crocodile Hunter."

And while Xzevies Baez is no Steve Irwin, the Cocoa PD officer could have easily waited for a gator wrangler instead of leaping to the rescue himself.

File this under, "Never a dull moment," the department said in a Facebook post on the video, which as of Friday morning had been viewed over 25,000 times.

RELATED: Mom catches alligator three times her size

"Turns out it was a small gator in the parking lot," the department wrote. "Officer Baez, with Officer Wade narrating, entered into the ankle-deep water of a flooded yard, patiently stalked his prey."

Then, with the stealth of a cat, Baez pounces.

Tour Guide Feeds Alligators Marshmallows Right From His Mouth

The whole thing is over in moments and the officer makes it look like child's play before the lil guy was taken to a "bigger safer pond."

Watch and enjoy. But, as the department says, "DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! Enjoy!"