Florida Backyard Gator, NOT Camera Shy

This is the largest alligator I've seen in my backyard; it must be just about 7 feet long, although my neighbor says it is 5 feet. In this occasion, the gator looked really guilty, so I took my camera with tripod out and set an automatic timer to photograph it. As I started the trigger the reptile "jumped" out of the water and stopped about 8 feet from the camera, just staring at it. This truly scared me... you can say this alligator wasn't camera shy or scared of humans at all; by the time I decided to call animal control, it was already Sunday, and it seems animal control at least here in Tampa, Florida, only works office hours. To the left is the gator before it bursted out of the water, and the gator looking at the camera on the right of the image.