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Five-Foot Woman Kills 13-Foot Alligator
CBS ^ | 18 Sept 2010 | unattributed

Posted on 09/18/2010 4:02:57 PM PDT by smokingfrog

Mary Ellen Mara-Christian is only five feet, five inches tall, weighing in at 115 pounds. She's looks small, but this week she proved she can take on a lot.

Mara-Christian killed a 13-foot, six-inch, 1,025-pound alligator during South Carolina's alligator hunting season.

How did she do it?

In an exclusive interview on "The Early Show on Saturday Morning," Mara-Christian explained she was out on a boat on Lake Moultrie with her husband and a few friends when she hooked the alligator with her heavy-duty fishing pole.

"We stuck him with a harpoon," she said. "We had two lines on him, we got him with a harpoon."

Mara-Christian said they had no idea how big the gator was. She said others estimated the gator was 10 feet long; it turned out to be three feet longer.

"I had no idea he was that big," she said.

But how did they reel him in?

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: gators; hunting; theweakersex
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1 posted on 09/18/2010 4:03:00 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

That’s a BIG gator!


2 posted on 09/18/2010 4:03:32 PM PDT by smokingfrog (freerepublic.com - Thanks JimRob! The flags are back! - 8/17/2010.)
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To: smokingfrog

http://www.youtube.com/v/2TgyaAVXAR8&rel


3 posted on 09/18/2010 4:06:17 PM PDT by smokingfrog (freerepublic.com - Thanks JimRob! The flags are back! - 8/17/2010.)
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To: smokingfrog
King of misleading. The picture and the headline make it sound as if she was out on a Sunday stroll and was attacked and managed to kill the gator with her hands or something.

A kid could kill a gator with a gun or a harpoon. Big deal.

4 posted on 09/18/2010 4:12:29 PM PDT by speciallybland
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To: smokingfrog

So, when he stuck his head out of the water, she shot him with a gun. I guess someone in a wheelchair could do that.


5 posted on 09/18/2010 4:14:23 PM PDT by Krankor (Don't you see, no matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.)
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To: smokingfrog

Five foot two
Eyes of blue
but oh what that five foot can do.....


6 posted on 09/18/2010 4:18:51 PM PDT by onona (dbada)
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To: smokingfrog

That woman could crawl right into the big alligator’s gullet to see why his belly is so fat.


7 posted on 09/18/2010 4:20:57 PM PDT by NautiNurse (ObamaCare uses Bernie Madoff theory of economics)
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To: smokingfrog; SouthTexas; happydogx2; glock rocks; B4Ranch; Pete-R-Bilt; vox_freedom

Get your boot orders in now while they are marked down to 2 pair for $5,500 dollars...


8 posted on 09/18/2010 4:22:00 PM PDT by tubebender (Life is short so drink the good wine first...)
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To: Krankor
That gator may have been 40+ years old. Little redneck girl kills him. Hooray?
9 posted on 09/18/2010 4:23:33 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (I'd rather be Plaxico Burress than Sean Taylor)
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To: smokingfrog
How did she do it?

Wow!

I figured the alligator was cackled to death before I found out it wasn't a Clinton that brought him to his doom.

10 posted on 09/18/2010 4:25:18 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: smokingfrog
And if you want ready-made 'gator steaks:


11 posted on 09/18/2010 4:25:45 PM PDT by twister881
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To: smokingfrog

Read the PETA people’s comments at the link!


12 posted on 09/18/2010 4:26:03 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: smokingfrog

Yeah, but she didn’t fight fair!


13 posted on 09/18/2010 4:35:22 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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To: Forgotten Amendments
That gator may have been 40+ years old. Little redneck girl kills him. Hooray?

What I was thinking only you said it better. Nothing to cheer about.

14 posted on 09/18/2010 4:38:26 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: smokingfrog

According to the story she had 2 helpers.


15 posted on 09/18/2010 4:47:23 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Forgotten Amendments; Menehune56

And it wasn’t like she actually did it alone. She had her husband and several friends to help her kill an old alligator. And her accent in one of the tapes sounds like she’s from Boston.


16 posted on 09/18/2010 4:47:53 PM PDT by Krankor (Don't you see, no matter what you do, you'll never run away from you.)
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To: smokingfrog

She really wanted a new purse didn’t she?


17 posted on 09/18/2010 4:50:12 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: smokingfrog
I can hear the leftwingers sniveling right now... "But it wasn't a fair fight. She didn't kill it with her bare hands. Blindfolded. With one arm tied behind her back. Snivel, snivel, snivel!"

Never mind that NO leftwing "man" has balls enough to do what this woman did.

18 posted on 09/18/2010 4:50:33 PM PDT by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: speciallybland

“A kid could kill a gator with a gun or a harpoon. Big deal.”

Info from Swamp People -

How many do you have in your creel? Big gators have only one vulnerable spot. That is a quarter sized spot on the back of the head (neck). Other spots on the top side are so tough that bullets and harpoons just bounce off.

You should watch swamp people.

Don’t know if this is a record but it is bigger than those shown on that collection of shows about the Cajun gator hunters in Louisiana.


19 posted on 09/18/2010 4:51:02 PM PDT by chooseascreennamepat (Reid: Why, oh why, are they picking on me?)
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To: smokingfrog

Don’t know what she looks like but the story alone makes her hot.

I need her number. /s


20 posted on 09/18/2010 4:58:07 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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