Authorities take 750-pound alligator from upstate New York home

The Hill ^ | March 17, 2024 | LAUREN SFORZA

[where's_the_Outrage?]

My first thought was why anyone would want an alligator that big, but after reading the guy owned it for over 30 years and the government changed the rules, I'm in his corner.

Excessive government strikes again.

[kiryandil]

When you get "the letter from the gubbmint".

Heads they win, tails you lose.

[Hyman Roth]

If alligators 🐊 are outlawed……..

[null and void]

I assume you know nussing, nussing about this...

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“numerous health issues,” including blindness in two eyes

Out of how many eyes?

[metmom]

The department added that the alligator has “numerous health issues,” including blindness in two eyes and complications with its spine.

Only TWO of its eyes? What about the rest of them?

Or could someone learn to write and say *both its eyes*?

[null and void]

It’s a mamma gator, it has eyes in the back of its head...

[frank ballenger]

I wonder what triggered all that violence? He seems so gentle. I see what it is. Nobody has ever just sat down and honestly talked to that (gator).
-—Gene Wilder in Stir Crazy

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I didn’t think of that.

[null and void]

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[Captain Peter Blood]

There’s a lot more to the story that is being published, and that alligator had been abused. It had a number of health problems because it had not been outside in the sunlight. The guy hadn’t clean the alligator pool in seven years and a lot of other things.

[Captain Peter Blood]

The blindness was due to vitamin deficiencies, that the alligator or suffering from along with the number of other alarming health issues

[Veto!]

Poor gator. I hope it survives that abuse and thrives in a river somewhere. I saw a lot of them on many trips driving across the Everglades from Naples to go shopping in Miami. We had one in our pool one time, called Animal Control who fished it out of the pool and drove it back to the Glades.

[Macho MAGA Man]

Gators are everywhere where I live. They really do need sunlight to stay healthy.

[xoxox]

prolly found it in the subway when it was young.

[Beowulf9]

Bring that lil guy to Texas and let him go in the Rio Grande!

[Darksheare]

Neither I nor my coffee are involved.

[null and void]

What do you call an alligator in a vest?

Give up or guess?

Highlight below for the answer:

An investagator.

Above here!

[Darksheare]

Do your worst, still not my fault!
*Maniacal laughter*

[deport]

Added for the record.

Environmental Conservation officers seize an alligator from a home in Hamburg, New York, on
March 13. (New York Department of Environmental Conservation via CNN Newsource)