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'Absolute dinosaur' gator seen on Florida school path
UPI ^
| May 17, 2024
| Ben Hooper
Posted on 05/20/2024 12:23:20 PM PDT by Red Badger
May 17 (UPI) -- Wildlife trappers were called to a Florida school where an "absolute dinosaur of an alligator" came wandering up a path.
The Pinellas County Sheriff's office said deputies responded to a report of a a large alligator on a pathway used by kids who walk to and from a nearby elementary school.
Deputies contacted the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for help relocating the 12.5-foot gator.
"PCSO remained in the area to keep the public from accidentally stumbling across this absolute dinosaur of an alligator until trappers contracted through FWC arrived," the Sheriff's Office said on social media.
Deputies helped trappers capture the alligator and relocate it to a more suitable habitat far from the school.
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To: dfwgator; TexasGator; EEGator; alligator; FamiliarFace; Fireone; V_TWIN
Gator Ping!..................
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:23:35 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:25:03 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
“12.5-foot gator”
Yeah that’s a pretty big boy.
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:25:51 PM PDT
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: Red Badger
*** Deputies helped trappers capture the alligator and relocate it to a more suitable habitat far from the school.***
Perhaps the Rio Grande?
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:26:13 PM PDT
by
FamiliarFace
(I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
To: V_TWIN
Very well fed.
Must be lots of cats and dogs missing there...................
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:27:10 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: V_TWIN
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:27:10 PM PDT
by
PfromHoGro
(Orwell was optimistic.)
To: Red Badger
That is nothing. Recently a 13 foot gator was sighted in Texas. As he moved to LA, MS, AL he kept growing. Texas game officers finally caught him in FL. 21 feet long!
To: Red Badger
Oh dear! Herman is missing!
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:30:49 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Why aren't eleven and twelve pronounced like one teen and two teen?)
To: Red Badger
Yeah, Florida is definitely not for me...
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:31:55 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: TexasGator
Texas game officers finally caught him in FL. 21 feet long! How did Texas fish and game agents wind up in Florida?
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:32:19 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: Red Badger
Kinda what I was thinking....no telling how many domesticated animals that thinking k has preyed on.
Also, Pinellas has a concetrated population......which probably means more pets
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:33:10 PM PDT
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
How did Texas fish and game agents wind up in Florida?
Border Patrol reinforcement recruiting.
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:33:19 PM PDT
by
nesnah
(Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
To: TexasGator
All the Cajun food, no doubt.......................
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:36:27 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
To: Jamestown1630
I’ve lived here nearly all my life.
Florida, the Carolinas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas they all have gators.............
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:38:18 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Jamestown1630
Alligators are only one of many Hazzards here.
There’s way worse.
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:38:55 PM PDT
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: Red Badger
Paging Brandon Hererra!
Brandon Hererra, please bring the AK-50 to Florida!
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:39:04 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Red Badger
Mike, why do you Floridians tolerate the presence of alligators in populated areas?
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posted on
05/20/2024 12:40:12 PM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
("The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed." Romans 8:19)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
"How did Texas fish and game agents wind up in Florida?" That is what I asked my sister when she showed us the photo.
But I was mistaken. It also grew from 21 to 28 feet after the killed it!
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gator-done/
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