Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Wave Of Huge Alligators Wreaking Havoc Across Southern States
denver.cbslocal.com ^ | 5/1/2018 | Unk

Posted on 05/04/2018 8:04:23 AM PDT by rktman

Alligator sightings are a common thing if you live in the south, but a wave of the monstrous creatures made their presence felt over the final weekend in April. Several residents in Florida and Texas were sent into a panic as large gators stopped traffic, invaded porches, and even approached a Target store over the weekend.

The alligator invasion started in Florida on April 28, when an “aggressive” 11-foot reptile made its way onto the front porch of home in The Villages near Orlando. “The minute that it seen a person it immediately, you now, started to hiss and come toward the person and as I walked over closer to it, it wanted to bite me,” Al Roberts of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said, via WKMG.

(Excerpt) Read more at denver.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chootem; friedgatortail; wildlife
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-94 next last
Reporting safely from Denver. LOL! The Villages? Probably wanted to borrow a golf cart. Target store? Just lookin' for a trans-reptile toilet facility. Sounds like they need to cull some gators who were saved from near extinction (ahem!) not that long ago. Well, I can tell you that in FL or LA, if there's water, there could be gators. There were thousands of them out on KSC property and they seem to know they are safe there. You can tell by there toothy smiles.
1 posted on 05/04/2018 8:04:23 AM PDT by rktman
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: rktman

I hear they make good shoes.


2 posted on 05/04/2018 8:06:28 AM PDT by Brilliant
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

>> and even approached a Target store over the weekend<<

But when it saw the grocery prices, it went to WalMart like everyone else.


3 posted on 05/04/2018 8:07:31 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (robert mueller is an unguided missile)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman
as I walked over closer to it, it wanted to bite me,” Al Roberts of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

Governments, at all levels, don't hire the sharpest tools.

4 posted on 05/04/2018 8:07:56 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

“Choot ‘em”


5 posted on 05/04/2018 8:08:15 AM PDT by circlecity
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman
Alligatornado !!!

6 posted on 05/04/2018 8:08:25 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Brilliant

They’re good eating too.


7 posted on 05/04/2018 8:08:47 AM PDT by rdl6989
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: rktman

I watched the Golf Channel a couple of weeks ago and they used Golf Carts to chase an Alligator off the course ,LOL


8 posted on 05/04/2018 8:08:56 AM PDT by butlerweave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

The first sentence is ignorant:

“Alligator sightings are a common thing if you live in the south”


9 posted on 05/04/2018 8:11:28 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

We have them in DFW. And pigs too. Hopefully the Gators are helping eat the pigs


10 posted on 05/04/2018 8:11:41 AM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: circlecity

Calling Troy Landry.....


11 posted on 05/04/2018 8:12:48 AM PDT by Battle Axe (Repent, for the Lord is coming.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Brilliant

Got a local fish camp that makes awesome fried gator tail. Good stuff.


12 posted on 05/04/2018 8:13:24 AM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: rktman

“Wreaking Havoc”?????

Or just existing???


13 posted on 05/04/2018 8:14:04 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

And to think, forty years ago the fainthearts were crying that alligators were going extinct in the USA!


14 posted on 05/04/2018 8:15:12 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BitWielder1

LOL! Or, in that heck of the woods...Gatorcane!


15 posted on 05/04/2018 8:15:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: rktman

I guess we’re all supposed to know the KSC acronym.


16 posted on 05/04/2018 8:15:30 AM PDT by BipolarBob (All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: rktman

The Villages is near Orlando? More like Summerfield or Wildwood or Leesburg, but Mount Dora is closer to Orlando....


17 posted on 05/04/2018 8:16:14 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Brilliant

Some parts are yummy!


18 posted on 05/04/2018 8:16:45 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: rktman

Alligator boots should come back in style!


19 posted on 05/04/2018 8:17:44 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BipolarBob; rktman

I am assuming that it is the Kennedy Space Center.


20 posted on 05/04/2018 8:17:52 AM PDT by kosciusko51
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-94 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson