Posted on 06/06/2025 6:00:22 AM PDT by V_TWIN
The scales of justice came for Pepe.
Cops detained – and rescued – a monster 10-foot alligator they nicknamed Pepe the Gator sunbathing on a busy road in North Carolina and “charged” him on suspicion of being a “dinosaur.”
“Witnesses say he was just chilling and snapping, clearly ignoring the ‘no loitering or lounging on roadways’ sign,” the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a playful press release last week. “Pepe has been cited for Suspicion of Being a Dinosaur Without Proper Papers, Public Loitering with Intent to Sunbathe, and Obstructing Traffic.”
“He was 10 feet long, 400 pounds. He was an absolute monster,” Trevor Dunnell, spokesman for the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office told the Post Thursday.
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What’s better than a massive gator smile?
Beat me to it.
He’s as big as Fluffy the alligator on Bald Head Island
Never heard that story...and don’t believe it.
I moved from there, and there are a ton of gators in that area. By the O-Club, there are signs warning people that it is an alligator habitat. No swimming.
It was in his journal. You can look it up, though it is your choice not to believe it, knowing what a liar Washington was.
I prefer shark for boots.
The only thing I could find in his journal was notice of an alligator pear while he was in Barbados with his brother.
Well, maybe that was it! I stand corrected. Even if he had seen one, it wouldn’t mean it had grown up there...
I stayed at my Aunt's condo in Florida...she said to run crooked....
Never did go into the back yard...where the pond was...
Yep, we were camping beside one of those ponds when I heard and eventually saw the gator in question. They sound like bullfrogs, only louder!...............
Yes, in a flat-out race, a gator can run you down. zig-zagging may give you an edge as they are slow at that. And in Florida, never, never, never, ever go swimming in fresh-water lakes or ponds. It might have been gator free yesterday but today is a new day and they migrate. I lived in Polk County and people did stoopid things, even those who were born there.
And he cut down the cherry tree...was BS, too...but it made for a cool story by the story teller. What he did do was kill his mother’s favorite horse while “horsing around” with the guys. Yup mom...I killed ‘er.
I live 10 miles from Camp Lejeune. We have way too many alligators. My wife went kayaking with me nearby. After about 20 minutes, she told me she wanted to go back, because she saw too many gators. None of the gators were very large but they did seem to all want to greet us.
Fried gator tail nuggets, yummy.
The gator I saw was in 1974, and since they are protected now I would imagine there are many, many more there now than then.
And she is correct. Kayaking around gators means that you are just a big sushi board to them..............
“Don’t need no Yankee Gators!.”
Gaytors
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