'Driving gator' removed from trapper's dashboard

HOUSTON, May 31 (UPI) -- An alligator rescued in the Houston area was removed from a catcher's SUV after wedging himself between the steering wheel and windshield.

Photos posted to Facebook by the Gator Squad show a reptile named Buster -- now nicknamed Buster the Driving Gator -- with his mouth taped shut inside trapper Christy Kroboth's vehicle.

The photos show Buster was able to wedge himself between the steering wheel and the windshield when he was left alone in the SUV.

"Got Buster the alligator early this morning, went home to change and came back out to find him trying to drive my car," Kroboth wrote in the Facebook post Sunday.

Kroboth posted a video to the page showing how she guided the hissing alligator out of his predicament.

"Removing Buster the alligator out of the car. He got stuck between the steering wheel and the windshield," she wrote.

The trapper said Buster is now doing well at his "forever home" at the Houston-area Gator Farm. She said her SUV suffered a pair of cracks to the windshield from Buster's ill-fated escape attempt.