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    Posted: June/02/2006 at 13:56

This alligator was found between Athens and Palestine, Texas near a
house.  How would you like to meet this fella in the dark?  Never let it
be said that we don't grow them big in Texas.

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 23-foot, 1-inch alligator that he shot and
killed in their back yard.

 

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote koshkin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: June/02/2006 at 23:55
That's an impressive looking monster.

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http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_big_gator.htm
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He's big, wherever he came from; probably not Palestine.  You never know, though.  I've never seen an alligator in my part of East Texas until ......  Two weeks ago my brother and I took a 9'2" gator out of our 8 acre lake.  I've got no idea where he came from.
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Originally posted by mwyates mwyates wrote:

He's big, wherever he came from; probably not Palestine.  You never know, though.  I've never seen an alligator in my part of East Texas until ......  Two weeks ago my brother and I took a 9'2" gator out of our 8 acre lake.  I've got no idea where he came from.

 

Yates, that creeps me out!!!!! No more pond swimming for cheaptrick.

I don't even want to get in the bathtub after hearing that, Brother!!!!!!

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CT,

They pulled a 212 LB. Alligator Gar out of Patton Maze near Paris Tx. I really would want to swim into him ether.

Thats one really big fish for freash water.

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That thing reminds me of the movie Lake Placid
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Glad i live in the UK...the only dangerous species we have here is called the *wife*
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ARE U SAYING U WILL TAKE YOUR GUN TO THE TUBE FROM NOW ON
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yeah real scary... 

 

 

I probably would have got to it before the warden

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should a sent it to orleans to eat the zombies
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