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Game Warden Drags, Kills Alligator(on a Houston suburb's residential street-on video)
Channel 2 Pseudo-News website ^
| 4/29/03
| Channel 2 sleazeball tabloid newsroom
Posted on 04/29/2003 11:26:47 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
Game Warden Drags, Kills Alligator Katy Residents Angry Over Gator's Death
POSTED: 8:47 a.m. CDT April 29, 2003 UPDATED: 11:04 a.m. CDT April 29, 2003
KATY, Texas -- Some Houston-area residents said they were upset Monday at the way a Texas Parks & Wildlife Department game warden got rid of 9-foot alligator in their neighborhood.
Residents told News2Houston that they called authorities after discovering the gator Thursday in the middle of a road in the 22000 block of Lodgestone Court in a Cinco Ranch neighborhood in Katy.
Witnesses recorded the gator's capture on videotape, in which the game warden was seen tying the animal to the back of his pickup, and then dragging it down the street while children and parents watched.
"It was very inhumane," resident Lara Mercadante said. "It was awful. It was absolutely unreal. If you weren't here you would not believe that it happened. We never thought that it was going to end up the way it did."
The game warden then took the alligator to the end of the street, and shot and killed it, authorities said.
TPWD officials said that although it is not typical practice for their officers to tow a live alligator behind a truck, they believe that the game warden followed what he felt was the most effective course of action.
However, officials said that as of a result of the incident, they are now reviewing their policies regarding nuisance alligator removal.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: alligator; animalcruelty; animalcultists; feeditpetsandkids; houston; inhumane; katy; neversmileatacroc; newboots; peta; petawhackos; soccermoms; squashlikeabug; texas
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To: annyokie
POLK .........SALAD.
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posted on
04/29/2003 12:10:49 PM PDT
by
Delbert
To: RooRoobird14
I grew up in Florida. 9 foot alligators are not all that uncommon there. And we grew up learning to respect them for critters they are. There is a 'proper' humane way to handle a gator.
Once the gator was secured, it's just a matter of waiting for someone who knew how to handle one to come do it. It would appear that this warden was either unschooled in handling this problem, or didn't want to take the time to gather the proper help.
Either way, the gator would probably still be dead, but it wouldn't have that ugly, macho, trigger-happy feel about it.
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
Yup. There goes the neighborhood...
43
posted on
04/29/2003 12:12:41 PM PDT
by
PetroniDE
(Get Well Soon Dix !!!)
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
The only native Texans living in Katy are the kids.
44
posted on
04/29/2003 12:13:14 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: HamiltonJay
If these people that are complain where to help the game warden haul the 9 foot alligator INTO the back of the pickup truck, then they can talk.
To: Diddle E. Squat
It sounds like a no-win situation for the officer as well as the gator. Where have all the stupid people come from? It didn't seem like there were so many when I was growing up. I must have led a sheltered life.
46
posted on
04/29/2003 12:22:21 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: Frohickey
What is a 9' alligator going to way? Somewhere over 150 to upwards of 200 lbs?
47
posted on
04/29/2003 12:25:19 PM PDT
by
Liberal Classic
(Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
To: proud_2_B_texasgal
"Either way, the gator would probably still be dead, but it wouldn't have that ugly, macho, trigger-happy feel about it."
Ahhh, that ugly, macho, trigger-happy feeling - how I miss it so. Although, that is not quite the reaction we get from women around here, when we dispatch a dangerous animal. They express a tad more gratitude.
48
posted on
04/29/2003 12:27:15 PM PDT
by
Search4Truth
(Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God - Thomas Jefferson.)
To: Diddle E. Squat
I wonder what these people would be saying had this gator gotten ahold of a toddler.
49
posted on
04/29/2003 12:27:23 PM PDT
by
fella
To: Diddle E. Squat
"The game warden then took the alligator to the end of the street, and shot and killed it, authorities said." Yeah, well, I suppose he should have carried the gator to the end of the street before plugging 'im. Would have been far more humane............................................ahem.
To: RooRoobird14; All
I would think they would have tried to relocate it I agree, the professionals I saw trap a gator took it out of the neighborhood and later shot it in another location.
For the uninformed, the method used in this article was wrong. First, you need more than one person. You use a pole with a loop on the end to immobilize it. Then an experienced (and brave) person stands over its shoulders and duck tapes its mouth and legs. Once that's done it isn't a danger to anyone unless you're dumb enough to stand next to its tail. Then it is hoisted into the back of a truck and brought to a private location where it is killed with a shot to the back of the head.
I'm not a PETA freak
I'm not either. I don't have a problem with their killing the gator. But any time an animal has to be killed the least painful method should be used. Inflicting needless suffering is cruel and shows very poor character.
51
posted on
04/29/2003 12:30:27 PM PDT
by
freeeee
To: Diddle E. Squat
A Nine Foot Alligator!
People can be so Stupid...What's Wrong With Folks these days any way?
That woman in the Video Clip needs her Head examined.
What would have happened if that Big Gator was hungry, looking for something to Eat and it Grabbed one of the Children or "Adults" on the street?
I believe that the Game Warden did The Right thing.
He was alone, no help...and had a Nine Foot Gator to deal with and Stupid People standing around complaining.
Thank God that the Game Warden was Armed with a GUN!
*** Note to Fools and Stupid Humans...Don't Mess Around With A Nine Foot Gator...or You could become his...Snack!
52
posted on
04/29/2003 12:32:51 PM PDT
by
Simcha7
(GOD Bless and Protect Our TROOPS!)
To: Diddle E. Squat
I need a new pair of Alligator boots.
To: battousai
What would they have had him do? Pick up a 9 FOOT gator and throw it into the back of his pickup?? Either that or shoot it right there and risk a richochete hitting the by standers. If a Game Warden can't shoot well enough to kill a gator on the spot without danger of a ricochete, I expect him to resign in shame and leave the South.
I had to dispose of several nuisance gators when I lived between Houston and the coast, some legally, some not. If you are close enough to get a rope on him, it's just not that difficult.
This game warden was just plain stupid.
So9
54
posted on
04/29/2003 12:34:46 PM PDT
by
Servant of the Nine
(Real Texicans; we're grizzled, we're grumpy and we're armed)
To: eddie willers
My mama was a big Tom Jones fan. I must have heard that song a million times if I heard it once. It seemed apropos to this topic.
55
posted on
04/29/2003 12:36:00 PM PDT
by
annyokie
To: RightOnline
Another Texas chain-dragging death. We're gonna develop a reputation.
56
posted on
04/29/2003 12:36:25 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Mike the Conservative
I have a nice briefcase made from one of this gator's relatives. ; )
57
posted on
04/29/2003 12:37:37 PM PDT
by
annyokie
To: Diddle E. Squat
That gator was racially profiled and dragged through the street like the man from Jasper Texas. He sould have had a chance to live and be place in a government ran home for gators.
Watch PETA say some of this nonsense.
58
posted on
04/29/2003 12:39:09 PM PDT
by
Warrior Nurse
(The Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps team putting warheads on their foreheads! OOH-RAH)
To: Search4Truth
><> that is not quite the reaction we get from women around here, when we dispatch a dangerous animal. They express a tad more gratitude. <><
"Why thank you, Mr. DoRight, for savin' us poor defenseless little womenfolk from that big bad alligator."
better?
LOLOL .. just teasin' .. It just conjured up the image.. hee hee
Carry on...........
To: Diddle E. Squat
This sounded like a job for you and your sword...
One problem: my sword is a shortsword - I'd need a broadsword at LEAST for that.
Now, my six-foot quarterstaff could have been very handy . . .
60
posted on
04/29/2003 12:40:44 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
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