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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: subterfuge

Also, Florida is the lightning strike state capital of the US.
Sharks, water moccasins, sinkholes, rip currents, giant roaches, the state bird is the mosquitoe, hurricanes and the tornadoes that hurricanes spawn, and the latest....MALARIA.

And let’s not forget the Senior drivers...


41 posted on 05/20/2024 1:42:33 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Florida’s gators help to scare away Leftists.


42 posted on 05/20/2024 1:50:07 PM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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To: FamiliarFace

If only...


43 posted on 05/20/2024 1:56:47 PM PDT by karnage
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To: Red Badger

In my opinion, I feel there’s no reason for Alligator leather boots to be so expensive.


44 posted on 05/20/2024 2:20:49 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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To: TexasGator

I was referring to that photograph. Looks big,
not being really knowledgeable that’s what I’d do.

(mebbe not good sale to TonyLamas?)


45 posted on 05/20/2024 2:23:48 PM PDT by A strike (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: TexasGator
"Gator hunters typically use a .22."
I heard or read that the .22 Magnum was favored.
46 posted on 05/20/2024 2:34:59 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: A strike

I would say he is parroting erf lovers. Maybe not.


47 posted on 05/20/2024 2:48:32 PM PDT by healy61 (.)
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To: Red Badger

He’s had a pretty good winter.


48 posted on 05/20/2024 2:52:46 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Red Badger

Wow Billy Napier is doing a great recruiting job.


49 posted on 05/20/2024 2:54:00 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Rockingham

The Pope took a couple of days off to visit the conservative state of Florida for some sightseeing. He was cruising along Alligator Alley in the PopeMobile when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the vegetation.

A helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, a ‘Save the Manatees’ hat and a ‘F*ck Trump’ T-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically and thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 14-foot alligator.

As the Pope watched in horror, a group of Republican boaters came racing up. One quickly fired a 44 magnum into the alligator’s head. The other two pulled the bleeding, semiconscious Democrat from the jaws of the huge gator. Then using their AR-15s, the three boaters finished off the gator and two of them threw it onto the back of their boat while the other tenderly placed the injured Democrat in the boat’s back seat.

As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. ‘I give you my blessing for your brave actions!’ he told them. ‘I heard there was a bitter hatred between Republican Boaters and Democratic Leftist activists but now I’ve seen with my own eyes that this is not true.’

As the Pope drove off, one boater asked his buddies ‘Who was that guy?’

‘It was the Pope,’ another replied. ‘He’s in direct contact with Heaven and has access to all wisdom.

‘Well,’ the logger said, ‘he may have access to all wisdom but he doesn’t know squat about gator hunting! By the way, is the bait still alive, or do we need to go back to Fort Lauderdale and get another one?’


50 posted on 05/20/2024 2:55:03 PM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: A strike

You’re not much fun at parties, are you?


51 posted on 05/20/2024 2:55:36 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Red Badger

Drop that bad boy in the Rio Grande. 😏


52 posted on 05/20/2024 3:01:20 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: moovova

You’re not usually coherent, are you?


53 posted on 05/20/2024 3:21:56 PM PDT by A strike (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: A strike
"I was referring to that photograph. Looks big, not being really knowledgeable that’s what I’d do."

Depends on whether or not your neighbors might react to gunfire and how good you are and skinning gators.


54 posted on 05/20/2024 3:29:49 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: A strike

At least you were intelligent enough to find the “Post Reply” icon. I’ll give you that.


55 posted on 05/20/2024 3:30:28 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: moovova

wow, I bet you’re proud of that best you’ve got


56 posted on 05/20/2024 3:33:36 PM PDT by A strike (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by 'climate change')
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To: rlmorel

“Well,’ the logger said, ‘he may have access to all wisdom but he doesn’t know squat about gator hunting! By the way, is the bait still alive, or do we need to go back to Fort Lauderdale and get another one?’”

Hunters don’t know squat about gators. They love dead meat.


57 posted on 05/20/2024 3:34:01 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Red Badger

They would come up on the back lawn when I lived in Jax on the Orgtega. Never got over the fence into the pool tho’.


58 posted on 05/20/2024 3:34:14 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: V_TWIN

Yeah but Florida has waaay bigger ones.


59 posted on 05/20/2024 3:57:40 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: rlmorel

Ok. I chuckled at that. Maybe a bit too much ... 🤣🤣🤣


60 posted on 05/20/2024 4:02:46 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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