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.
Call the people who hunt gators on “SWAMP PEOPLE”.
They have had gators over 14 feet
They were here first.....................
3, 4, 5, 30.06 up the spine, then 12ga to the head
Is he trying to work the latch mechanism? 😮😦
are you Really being such a dumbass?
To the victors go the spoils.
I have a big alligator about that size that cruises the shoreline of the lake behind my house several times every day. I have to keep watch when my dogs are in the back yard.
Gators are an essential part of the environment.............
Good thing they don’t have opposable thumbs........
Just had an 8.5 female removed from our backyard lakeshore. Space coast, FL.
She has started coming into the yard. Called PWC and a gator wrangler trapped her 4 days later. She was not taken alive.
Yea, like snow birds in the winter
“Him” and a few thousand of its relatives
Sign him up. We could use another good Defensive Tackle.
Go GATORS!
Yes. You are correct sir. Let’s not forget the 15 foot pythons, coyotes, bear, wild boars, lake otter (will rip your throat out), rattlesnakes. There’s another list for the beaches.
When I first came to Florida 50-odd years ago, poachers kept the alligator population down. Since they were protected, their population has soared.
Because their predation keeps populations of other species in check? Which species—toddlers?
“Perhaps the Rio Grande?l
I was thinking more like the Potomac.
“When I first came to Florida 50-odd years ago, poachers kept the alligator population down. Since they were protected, their population has soared.”
Back in the there were lots of gators but they mostly were not a threat. We used to swim with them, even at night.
Once we took out a couple (I got a big one with my 8mm Mauser) for a friend as he had too small dogs and two young girls.
“3, 4, 5, 30.06 up the spine, then 12ga to the head”
Gator hunters typically use a .22.
Not just winter anymore....since taterhead staggered into the WH, they’ve been moving here in droves.......last time I checked 1500 people A DAY are moving to Florida.
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