the deerhunter
I got this in my inbox the other day from my good friend Sally in Melbourne. From the email:
This picture was taken by a KTBS helicopter flying over Lake Wiess about 90 miles north of Birmingham, Alabama That has to be a HUGE gator to have a whole deer in its mouth! Are you ready to go skiing on Lake Wiess ?! If you ski at the west end of the lake — try not to fall.
This alligator was found between Centre and Leesburg , Alabama 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, but they realized the stories were, if anything, understated.
Alabama Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast. Joe Goff, 6′5″ tall, a game warden, walks past the 23-foot, 1-inch alligator he shot and killed in their back yard.”
I don’t have any link for it, so I’ll just share the picts. Click to enlarge.
Steve Erwin is probably rolling over in his grave at the sight of that monster dead and hanging like that. But fuck him. This thing is over 23 feet long!
[thanks sally.]
In other news… I was shrieking like a little girl last night as I attempted to get a spider out of my apartment without killing it. Had to be at least an inch long!
Croc are awesome.
Too bad the briains down there couldn’t come up with an ulterior method to capture or ‘persuade’ it to go back into the water.
No water skiiing? Fuck that. Shoot it!
Just rad lookin’ that thing.
Maybe I’m high.
I hope the corpse of Steve Irwin comes back and sodomizes the douche bags who decided to shoot this great croc.
Hey-in trying to find this story, I ran across several versions of it going back to last year. One person reports it as happening in Texas and another in Georgia. Just google “largest gator” in an images search and it will link to several of the articles….
…interesting
…and yummy
sad such a magnificent creature ended up like this. it could have been provided a safe place for it to live out its remaining life!
I’m sure they could have tranquilized it or attempted some method of live capture. The alligator didn’t deserve to end that way. Hope the fish and game can sleep at night after putting down that gator.