Marine veteran and mixed martial arts fighter Mike Dragich—known online as the “Blue Collar Brawler”—was recently filmed wrestling a six-foot-long alligator barefoot in the middle of a busy highway in Jacksonville, Florida.

“If you were cruising down I-96/I-295 on the Southside yesterday and thought you saw a barefoot man wrestling a giant alligator in the median,” the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post on April 28, “Nope, your eyes weren’t playing tricks on you. That really happened.”

“Just another totally normal day in the Sunshine State,” the post added.

Dragich, a licensed Florida alligator trapper with 390,000 Instagram followers, is known for posting clips of his hunting and animal-wrangling adventures. He also uses his platform to raise awareness about veteran mental health.

“I’m eating dinner with my family on Sunday and next thing you know, I get a call that there’s a huge alligator crossing the main highway and I had to come get the job done once again,” Dragich told Fox News. “We got out there and thankfully nobody got hurt.”

He added, “It was a crazy situation. Semis and stuff flying by. So, thank you to the law enforcement guys for holding them down so we could get that gator taken away.”

The gator, he estimates, weighed “probably about 300 pounds.”

“And once again, the Lord used a blue collar boy and an alligator to bring the community together,” Dragich said.

When asked why he was barefoot during the encounter, he explained, “I go a lot of places barefoot, believe it or not, it’s better to do this thing barefoot.” He likened it to playing an instrument, saying, “If I’m playing the guitar with gloves, it just doesn’t work.”

Outside of gator wrestling, Dragich runs Project Savior Outdoors, a nonprofit that combats veteran suicide through outdoor hunting and fishing retreats.