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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: Red Badger

Call the people who hunt gators on “SWAMP PEOPLE”.

They have had gators over 14 feet


21 posted on 05/20/2024 12:44:50 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

They were here first.....................


22 posted on 05/20/2024 12:46:38 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: BipolarBob

3, 4, 5, 30.06 up the spine, then 12ga to the head


23 posted on 05/20/2024 12:48:42 PM PDT by A strike (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: BipolarBob

Is he trying to work the latch mechanism? 😮😦


24 posted on 05/20/2024 12:50:20 PM PDT by Reynoldo (BurnLootMurder)
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To: Red Badger

are you Really being such a dumbass?


25 posted on 05/20/2024 12:51:07 PM PDT by A strike (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: Red Badger

To the victors go the spoils.


26 posted on 05/20/2024 12:53:00 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 ("The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed." Romans 8:19)
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To: Red Badger

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.


27 posted on 05/20/2024 12:57:44 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Gators are an essential part of the environment.............


28 posted on 05/20/2024 12:59:10 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Reynoldo

Good thing they don’t have opposable thumbs........


29 posted on 05/20/2024 1:00:23 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

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.


30 posted on 05/20/2024 1:05:07 PM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb)
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To: V_TWIN

Yea, like snow birds in the winter


31 posted on 05/20/2024 1:07:31 PM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: FamiliarFace

“Him” and a few thousand of its relatives


32 posted on 05/20/2024 1:13:46 PM PDT by dontBSme
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To: Red Badger

Sign him up. We could use another good Defensive Tackle.

Go GATORS!


33 posted on 05/20/2024 1:15:23 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: V_TWIN

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.


34 posted on 05/20/2024 1:23:51 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Red Badger

When I first came to Florida 50-odd years ago, poachers kept the alligator population down. Since they were protected, their population has soared.


35 posted on 05/20/2024 1:27:20 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Red Badger

Because their predation keeps populations of other species in check? Which species—toddlers?


36 posted on 05/20/2024 1:28:51 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 ("The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed." Romans 8:19)
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To: FamiliarFace

“Perhaps the Rio Grande?l
I was thinking more like the Potomac.


37 posted on 05/20/2024 1:29:28 PM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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To: Hiddigeigei

“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.


38 posted on 05/20/2024 1:31:41 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: A strike

“3, 4, 5, 30.06 up the spine, then 12ga to the head”

Gator hunters typically use a .22.


39 posted on 05/20/2024 1:38:15 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: falcon99

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.


40 posted on 05/20/2024 1:40:26 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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