[Diddle E. Squat]

Judge for yourself, here's Some of the video

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

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.

I guess they would have preferred the more human lethal injection

we have gators all over the place down here if a nuisance alligator is trapped over 4 feet long the trapper keeps it as his payment he is not paid any cash

[green team 1999]

why they "have to" kill the gator?
is animal control or "animal terminator"?
and the govmnt. spend millions to set loose wolfs in the wild,but they could not send the gator to florida,alive?

[green team 1999]

well,where was that baseball player from florida?,he kills animals for fun and uses baseballs instead of bullets

[Grampa Dave]

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b4342ab447e.htm

Severed Arm Found, Alligator Suspected

News/Current Events News Keywords: ALLIGATOR ATTACK
Source: Reuters
Published: Tuesday July 3 12:30 PM ET Author: Reuters
Posted on 07/04/2001 09:22:03 PDT by b4its2late
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) - A human arm that appeared to have been bitten by an alligator was found in a canal west of Fort Lauderdale, sheriff's deputies said on Monday.

The raggedly severed right arm was found on Sunday and was that of an adult male who apparently did not survive, said Broward County Sheriff's spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright.

``We're sure if they survived and they're missing a right arm, they would have come forward by now,'' she said. ''Detectives have no idea what happened with this body part, whether it was some sort of accident and the person was eaten by an alligator and this is what's left.''

Investigators took fingerprints from the hand.

Alligator attacks have become more common in Florida as its burgeoning human population pushes development farther into the reptiles' traditional swampy habitat.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has recorded 289 alligator attacks on humans, 11 of them fatal, since it began keeping records in 1948. Six people have been attacked by alligators in the last three months, two of them fatally.

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This data is over two years. There have been many more attacks on humans with mutilations and deaths added to the toll.

[Grampa Dave]

As our resident keeper of odd knowledge.

Do you have the up todate # of alligator attacks in Florida and number of deaths and injuries, handy some place.

[TexanToTheCore]

This officer did exactly the right thing. He removed the gator to an area that had soft ground and was away from the children and then dispatched him quickly with a relatively low power round, probably 9MM.

If I remember correctly, Cinco Ranch has mostly concrete roads and there was a high probability of a ricochet.

9 foot gators are extremely dangerous and tend not "menace or threaten" anything. If they take an interest in your child or pet or you....the are on you like lightning.

My compliments to the officer for a job well done.

This gator, BTW, had established that road as his sunning territory and would probably have begun hunting later in the evening. Maybe this woman's children.

These are not disney-like mechanical gators, but efficient predators.

Jeeez........

[buffyt]

We have had three gators in our neighborhood. Lake Jackson, on the Gulf coast, south of Houston. Lots of creeks and rivers and ponds and lakes around here. Lots of nutria and alligators around here, too. One was 11 1/2 ft. long, our neighbor got into BIG TROUBLE for shooting that gator as it attacked him and his dog.

[dennisw]

I love alligators but they're vicious, lethal, pea brained reptiles. I would care if a mammal was drug behind a pick up but not some nuisance gator.

[blastdad51]

I heard gators are good eatin. ( hold ma beer while ah shoot this thang!)

[texson66]

No swamp for you!

[lawgirl]

I'm not a PETA freak, but this was incredibly outrageous. There was no reason to treat this animal in this cruel way. They should have relocated the gator, not killed him.

I hope the Ahole that did this is fired.