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‘We can’t cuff him’: JSO removes nuisance gator from 104-year-old woman’s home
news4jax.com ^ | May 22, 2024 | Ashley Harding

Posted on 05/22/2024 5:12:01 AM PDT by V_TWIN

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – We are now in alligator mating season, so that means you can expect to see more reptiles out and about.

For one local woman, that meant a sighting a little too close for comfort.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office released a video (watch it below) showing Officers Kopp and Johnson removing a small alligator from the 104-year-old woman’s home near Atlantic Boulevard and Art Museum Drive.

The officers had a little fun taking the gator away, saying, “We can’t cuff him” and then telling the gator they were going to “take him downtown” so he could “leave the grandmas alone.”


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1 posted on 05/22/2024 5:12:01 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Red Badger; moovova

Baby gator ping!


2 posted on 05/22/2024 5:12:30 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

Awwww he’s so cute!...................


3 posted on 05/22/2024 5:20:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: dfwgator; TexasGator; EEGator; alligator; FamiliarFace; Fireone

He’s sooo cute!................


4 posted on 05/22/2024 5:21:09 AM 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

How long is gator mating season?


5 posted on 05/22/2024 5:24:19 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: FamiliarFace

May-June.......................


6 posted on 05/22/2024 5:27:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: V_TWIN

“Good buddy.”


7 posted on 05/22/2024 5:29:09 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: FamiliarFace
https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/wildlife/alligator/facts/
8 posted on 05/22/2024 5:29:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: V_TWIN
Remember the "Lake Placid" grandma that was feeding the mammoth alligator...?


9 posted on 05/22/2024 5:35:21 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: V_TWIN

About 3 weeks ago, I had one trying to get under the gate to my fence at 5 am when I took my rescue puppy out.

It was pitch black and all I heard was the bellow which almost made me collapse.

All is good and he found a girlfriend in our lake but this is what I heard. I had no idea what it was!

https://youtube.com/shorts/GRLQIrp-0m4?si=UyruZ6eIzNZfTln8


10 posted on 05/22/2024 5:46:35 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Red Badger

“Awwww he’s so cute!...................:

How do you know it’s a “HE?”

The tape across the mouth would indicate otherwise... LOL


11 posted on 05/22/2024 5:52:57 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: V_TWIN

Any alligator that comes into my house will become a matched set of luggage.


12 posted on 05/22/2024 6:34:57 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: reg45

That one’s barely big enough for a belt! Lol!


13 posted on 05/22/2024 6:38:22 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
but this is what I heard. I had no idea what it was!

In the dark of the night and I heard that, I'd say good luck dog and get my butt back in the house, lock the door and grab the biggest rifle I had.

14 posted on 05/22/2024 6:43:09 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Boozie was eaten by cannibals....)
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To: moovova

Is that for real? Looks like a hollywood gater in one of those Jaws inspired flicks.


15 posted on 05/22/2024 6:46:15 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Clutch Martin
That's "Lake Placid"...a gator horror/comedy flick. There was at old lady in it...crazy as a coot...that would feed the gator. She fed it that cow.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Placid_(film)

16 posted on 05/22/2024 8:54:28 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Hot Tabasco

CAN PICK UP A PUPPY!!!


17 posted on 05/22/2024 12:04:12 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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