[Search4Truth]

Being from the Big Easy in the Deep South, I can tell you that was one dangerous gator. Gators that size are fearless, they will attack anything, on impulse - gators don't think before they attack, they just attack.

You don't try to capture an alligator that size, too dangerous. He should have shot it dead where he found it, and then dragged it off.

That's what we do with ones half that size, that find their way into the suburbs through the drainage canals. Gators that size will take small pets. Gators the size of the one in this article takes anything they want.

A gator's most dangerous trait is that they seem docile and lumbering, but in a micro second can be in your face. It's shocking the first time you see a gator go from being a log, to lunging out of the water where all you see is teeth.

To hell with that gator. Although, they are tasty fried or with a sauce piquant.

[stands2reason]

Being from the Big Easy in the Deep South, I can tell you that was one dangerous gator.

"No, not our golf-course pool gator! He was a sweetheart! How could they be so cruel?" *sniff* (do you really need a sarcasm tag?)

[Bigg Red]

He should have shot it dead where he found it, and then dragged it off.

That's what I said, but someone else told me that then the parents would have been complaining about the warden using a gun in the presence of the children.

[Clemenza]

That's what we do with ones half that size, that find their way into the suburbs through the drainage canals.

Gators were a common sight during the dry season (roughly September thorough April) when I lived in Miami for the same reason. When the 'glades dry up, they simply swim up the canals into residential areas.