Posted on 08/01/2019 4:29:41 AM PDT by marktwain
On Saturday, 20 July 2019, Derrick Fells was trapping minnows on his 17-acre property in Tuscola, County, Michigan. Fells was carrying a pistol. He heard a hissing sound and thought it might be from a possum. Instead of a possum, there was a six-foot alligator sunning itself next to the Sucker Creek canal on his property.
The Alligator came toward him, and he shot it. He immediately called 911. From nbc25news.com:
Fells has about 17 and a half acres in Tuscola County's Dayton Township and on Saturday, ended up stumbling upon an alligator while catching minnows on his property.
“There was a 6-foot alligator sunbathing and when I spooked the alligator, it turned on me to come toward me. I pulled my pistol out and I shot it. That paralyzed him and then I immediately called 911,” Fells stated.
Defense against animal attack is seldom mentioned in the debate about Second Amendment rights. It is hard to consider a more legitimate case than a person defending themselves from an animal on their own property.
The alligator had escaped from a neighbor who was in the habit of rescuing exotic animals The neighbor has two other alligators, an emu, and rattlesnakes on their property.
Derrick Fells was concerned about what might have happened if it had been a child instead of him who had stumbled on the alligator.
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No mention of how the gator got to be in Michigan?
Never mind.
Alligator’s in Michigan?
“Mail on Sunday?”
Snowbird gator, it would have headed back to Florida around October, no later than Thanksgiving.
Bad enough when a neighbor's dog gets loose and digs up the flower bed.
It’s in there. Escaped from a neighbor’s
George Washington reported in his journal of seeing an alligator in the wilds of southern Virginia.
Probably the same way the one got into the Humboldt Park Lagoon in Chicago - someone's discarded pet (although a 6-footer seems a bit large for that).
Army vet. 6 foot long alligator. Good thing he was carrying.
We use to think it was odd seeing them in central TX. Damn climate change.
alligator? that is racist
Wow.
That is certainly about the last thing you would ever, ever expect to run into in Michigan.
Ever.
And I hated cleaning the cat’s litter box...
"You shot my brother?"
Why is there an alligator in Michigan?...........
That gator does not look 6 feet long....................
That gator does not look 6 feet long....................
Lots of tail on that gator...
“No mention of how the gator got to be in Michigan?”
Surprisingly there are many gator owners in the state and there is no law against it. On record from what I could find, there are over 5000 of them in the state they have record of. Probably more.
rwood
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