Huge Freakin Gator...

This picture was taken by a Lifeflight helicopter flying over Lake Istapoka ,
(For those of you who are not local, Lake Istapoka is near Sebring, Fl.)
That has to be a HUGE gator to have a whole deer in its mouth!
Are you ready to go fishing on Lake Istapoka ?!
If you ski -- try not to fall.

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The alligator was found between Lake

Istapoka and Pinedale estates... near a house ,

Game Wardens were forced to shoot the

alligator- guess he wouldn't cooperate.

Jayne and Don Hobkirk could hear

the bellowing in the night.

Their neighbors had been telling them

that they had seen a mammoth alligator

in the Lake that runs behind their house,

but they dismissed the stories as being exaggerations.

"I didn't believe it," Don Hobkirk said.

Friday they realized the stories were,

if anything, understated.

Florida Game and Parks game wardens

had to shoot the beast...

Joe Goff, 6' 5" tall, a game warden with the Florida Game and Parks Commission, walks past the 23-foot, one inch alligator that he shot and killed in the back yard of Jayne & Don Hobkirk...

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Its huge.........

I know a gater that can harm people should be shot but I think it could have been removed to another place, I'm trying to say this without sounding like a hippie but we are sharing the land with wild animals. I don't understand how anyone expects the majority of them to stay living(naturally alive and well) in the next 50 years
BUT still cool

Yeah, I'm all about hunting and all that stuff, but I think they should have atleast tried to save this. The thing has got to be really old, and it's HUGE. Try to save it and put it somewhere it can live and not be harmed or harm.

[quote88235b772e="hairyferry"]Yeah, I'm all about hunting and all that stuff, but I think they should have atleast tried to save this. The thing has got to be really old, and it's HUGE. Try to save it and put it somewhere it can live and not be harmed or harm.[/quote88235b772e]

not harm? its natural to harm others...

[quote771a81a27a="x323smostwantedx"]Its huge.........[/quote771a81a27a]

That's what she said.

[quotefc93a59370="findme"][quotefc93a59370="hairyferry"]Yeah, I'm all about hunting and all that stuff, but I think they should have atleast tried to save this. The thing has got to be really old, and it's HUGE. Try to save it and put it somewhere it can live and not be harmed or harm.[/quotefc93a59370]

not harm? its natural to harm others...[/quotefc93a59370]


actually gators dont just attack humans. When we start pushing into their space, then they attack.

I dont know. I have not yet seen a gator swim out of the water, walk one mile to a human, and attack it. shrug

That thing is massive.

And why is it a suprise about a deer in its mouth? Alligators in Africa eat water buffalo....

And shooting it wasn't cool either....

snopes says true, http//www.snopes.com/photos/animals/gatordeer.asp

though half the size cited in the email harry posted.

Snopes says in Louisiana, Harry said Flordia. I would like to think we grow gators bigger here in Louisiana.....

I was just gunna point to snopes. Its a real picture, but it was in Texas, and not 23 ft.

[quote6cc010f071="TryinToGetPaid"]Alligators in Africa eat water buffalo....[/quote6cc010f071]

Those are crocodiles, which are a good amount bigger than american alligators.

You say potato I say potato... the only thing I ever remember about them being different is one's teeth hang over its bottom lip and the other doesn't.....

that bottom pic looks fake to me

[quote8c525d4191="fawker"]I'm trying to say this without sounding like a hippie but we are sharing the land with wild animals. I don't understand how anyone expects the majority of them to stay living(naturally alive and well) in the next 50 years
BUT still cool[/quote8c525d4191]

Simple... They're called Wildlife refuges... We kick them out of their home, tag them and shove them in some designated land.

[quote91a62e22c9="h3x"][quote91a62e22c9="fawker"]I'm trying to say this without sounding like a hippie but we are sharing the land with wild animals. I don't understand how anyone expects the majority of them to stay living(naturally alive and well) in the next 50 years
BUT still cool[/quote91a62e22c9]

Simple... They're called Wildlife refuges... We kick them out of their home, tag them and shove them in some designated land.[/quote91a62e22c9]

hmm, now when and where has the US done that before, but with "savages," not animals?

Here is the info on the dead gator, this one and the one with the deer are not the same ones like the post implys. And it explains how the size of the hanging gator looks larger then it is.
Also i belive firmly in saving animels too, however i'm not getting anywhere near something with THAT many teeth.

http//www.snopes.com/photos/animals/wcgator.asp

it was a forward that i got from a friend so I just copied and pasted.

[quote5667cd888c="doylnea"][quote5667cd888c="h3x"][quote5667cd888c="fawker"]I'm trying to say this without sounding like a hippie but we are sharing the land with wild animals. I don't understand how anyone expects the majority of them to stay living(naturally alive and well) in the next 50 years
BUT still cool[/quote5667cd888c]

Simple... They're called Wildlife refuges... We kick them out of their home, tag them and shove them in some designated land.[/quote5667cd888c]

hmm, now when and where has the US done that before, but with "savages," not animals?[/quote5667cd888c]

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[quote445201a389="tylerc"][quote445201a389="x323smostwantedx"]Its huge.........[/quote445201a389]

That's what she said.[/quote445201a389]

Thats what HE said...


This gator looks like a freakin dinosaur. Maybe it could be used in some research...

without irwin, we don't know how to handle such massive beasts...crikie!

[quote9cec094049="tylerc"][quote9cec094049="x323smostwantedx"]Its huge.........[/quote9cec094049]

That's what she said.[/quote9cec094049]

Lmfaoo.

+K to that dude.

My goal last week was to say thats what she said at least once every period, but only at the right times...not at stupid shit.

I think steve would of been pissed if he saw that evil

I know it would have been better to move it elsewhere, but exactly how do you plan to move it? you can't find one of those pull thingy's big enough to go around it's head, and you would have to find a way to put it asleep because even if you put a rope around it or something it would pull a boat wherever he felt like going...

They coulda tried asking the gator nicely.

I betcha Betty White pushed that deer.