Deputies: Central Florida Man Kills Alligator, Burns House

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[chance33_98]

Deputies: Central Florida Man Kills Alligator, Burns House
Suspect Charged With Arson
Posted: 5:28 a.m. EDT June 21, 2002

FORT MCCOY, Fla. -- A 52-year-old man rammed his truck into his girlfriend's car, fatally injuring an alligator in her backyard, before he set both of their houses on fire, deputies said. Dennis L. Saunders was charged Thursday with arson of an unoccupied dwelling, a felony, for burning his own house. He was released from the Marion County Jail on a $10,000 bond.

Saunders rammed his truck into his girlfriend's 1977 Camaro after she said she was leaving him, according to sheriff's reports. The car hit a boat, which landed in a pool.

The Camaro also hit an alligator fenced in her yard. His girlfriend, Rose Marie Simmons, 36, said her family caught the alligator in a private pond and planned to release it soon.

The alligator was euthanized because of its injuries.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating who owned the alligator, said spokeswoman Joy Hill. It is illegal to possess an alligator without a state permit.

Saunders also set two fires in his girlfriend's house, causing $25,000 in damage, fire investigators said.

He left her house holding a gun to his head and pulled the trigger, but the gun was apparently not loaded, according to sheriff's reports.

Saunders could not be reached for comment by the Ocala Star-Banner.

Fort McCoy is about 55 miles northwest of Orlando.

[chance33_98]

What an idiot.

[Movemout]

Idiot is too mild a description. He probably voted Buchanan thinking it was vote for Gore. Too bad the alligator didn't get his chomp in before being turned into a purse and some boots.

[DETAILER]

OK let's see here- we have an alligator in the yard, we have a purposeful ramming of a car by a truck (a 77 camaro! woo-hooo)we have a relationship falling apart, we have an attempted suicide, empty gun, and we have arson!

We definitely need to install video cameras all over this place and all the relatives as well, this is bound to be year round entertainment! Put them on prime time!

[verity]

I am convinced that God created humans for His entertainment.:~)

[chance33_98]

I am convinced that God created humans for His entertainment.:~)

And the more you entertain, the longer you will live :)

[sonjay]

we have an alligator in the yard, we have a purposeful ramming of a car by a truck (a 77 camaro! woo-hooo)we have a relationship falling apart, we have an attempted suicide, empty gun, and we have arson!

And we have the guy getting released on $10,000 bail!

[GBA]

Gee, I can't imagine why she would want to leave such a fine example of a man. I'm sure she'll miss him.

[DETAILER]

I'll bet the deputies are sitting at the top of the road, just waiting to see what happens next. Popcorn and cokes.

[capt. norm]

The aligator charges are much more serious than arson around here (Panama City, FL). For things like arson and attempted murder, all you have to worry about are the State Troopers, Police, Sheriff's Deputies, and maybe even the FBI if it was really bad.

But for trifling with an aligator, you have every 'green' liberal group known to science after you and they don't have to play by the rules (the crap they pull on foresters by embedding nails in trees so that their chainsaws self-destruct, usually maiming and possibly blinding them for trying to earn a day's pay).

The law enforcement people will at least read you your rights and go 'by the book' in handling your case since doing otherwise will get them canned. But the greenies have a cause (it seems to replace religion in their lives) and they feel free to destroy you if that's what it takes to 'save the world'.

[Shermy]

Alligator bump.

[mhking]

A 52-year-old man rammed his truck into his girlfriend's car, fatally injuring an alligator in her backyard, before he set both of their houses on fire...

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!"

[Shermy]

YEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeHAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaa!

[2sheep]

>He left her house holding a gun to his head and pulled the trigger, but the gun was apparently not loaded, according to sheriff's reports.  Saunders could not be reached for comment by the Ocala Star-Banner.

And if the gun had been loaded, Saunders also could not have been reached for comment.

[2sheep]

>I am convinced that God created humans for His entertainment.:~)

Your paraphrase is right on target:

Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

[2sheep]

>I'll bet the deputies are sitting at the top of the road, just waiting to see what happens next. Popcorn and cokes.

Ha ha ha!  That is sooo funny.

[2sheep]

>But the greenies have a cause (it seems to replace religion in their lives) and they feel free to destroy you if that's what it takes to 'save the world'.

It is a religion...Luciferian occultism!

 Gaia: The re-ordering of the world - Part I

 Sustainable development explained: Joan Veon explains evolution of U.N. global control push - Part II

 Churches deceived by green extremists: Henry Lamb describes world religion called 'Gaia'

 AL GORE, THE UNITED NATIONS, AND THE CULT OF GAIA (treaties, UN mysticism, Gore's book)

[savedbygrace]

OK let's see here- we have an alligator in the yard, we have a purposeful ramming of a car by a truck (a 77 camaro! woo-hooo)we have a relationship falling apart, we have an attempted suicide, empty gun, and we have arson!

All the makings of a #1 Country & Western hit.

[Beach_Babe]

lol...I live right outside Ft. McCoy...a quaint little redneck hamlet just west of the Ocala National Forest. The gator in my pond ate my neighbor's dog last week.

[dennisw]

Boy was that guy busy. Was alcohol involved? Hahahhah

[small voice in the wilderness]

"There's nothin about mamma, or prison, or trains, or gettin drunk." David Allen Coe.