Gators, TEXAS style!

Brutuskend

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Apr 2, 2001
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This alligator was found between Athens and Palestine, Texas near a house.

Game wardens were forced to shoot the alligator- guess he wouldn't cooperate...

Anita and Charlie Rogers could hear the bellowing in the night.

Their neighbors had been telling them that they had seen a mammoth alligator in the waterway that runs behind their house, but they dismissed the stories as exaggerations.

"I didn't believe it," Charles Rogers said. Friday they realized the stories were, if anything, understated.

Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast Joe Goff, 6'5" tall, a game warden with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, walks past a 13-foot, 1-inch alligator that he shot and killed in their back yard.

 

pontifex

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Dec 5, 2000
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that thing is huge! i'd be scared as hell to go outside if i knew that thing was round.
 

Ika

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Mar 22, 2006
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Jesus. I don't even think that's the biggest they can get, IIRC... scary ****.
 

ElFenix

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Mar 20, 2000
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they gonna make some boots out of that?



texas has a gator infestation right now. the gator trappers get a license from the state to clear gators out of peoples yards. there are enough ornery gators that don't cooperate and have to be shot (and made into boots) that the trappers don't charge homeowners.
 
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wow. i didn't realize the alligators got that far up from the coast. I've gone fishing near Athens in my float tube.... NOT ANYMORE!