13 foot alligator !!!

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This alligator was found between Athens and Palestine , Texas near a house. Game wardens were forced to shoot the alligator- guess he wouldn't cooperate... Anita and Charlie Rogers could hear the bellowing in the night. Their neighbors had been telling them that they had seen a mammoth alligator in the waterway that runs behind their house, but they dismissed the stories as exaggerations.

"I didn't believe it," Charles Rogers said. Friday they realized the stories were, if anything, understated. Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast Joe Goff, 6'5" tall, a game warden with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, walks past a 13-foot (photoshoped to look like its 23 feet),alligator that he shot and killed in their back yard.






this alligator was seen from a helicoptor in GEORGIA:





more pics and info:

http://www.fws.gov/southeast/news/2004/r04-073.html
 
That's freakin' sweet. The largest I've seen in person is an 18 footer. I fed it a raw chicken. They need to taxidermy that thing and send it to the smithsonian.
 
Crikey mate.

I was about to say that it could have eaten one of the small deers liek we have around here, but that second photo seals it.

I'd like to see that versus a bull elephant.
 
Wow, that is amazing. I wouldn't have liked to have got into a 1 on 1 with it :lol:.
 
live4speed
Wow, that is amazing. I wouldn't have liked to have got into a 1 on 1 with it :lol:.
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Famine's fun fact about 'gators.

Though the muscles which close alligators' jaws are immensely strong, the ones which open them are really appallingly weak. Even this sucker could be rendered harmless with the application of a single elastic band (though it would have to be a pretty big one) and you could certainly hold its jaws shut.
 
it would have been cooler if they sedated it and put it in an animal prison... i mean Zoo. :p
 
Got dang. That thing is huge. Its a shame they had to kill it. Would be cool to have an alligator that large in captivity.
 
It will be god damn funny if someone had to fight against it. It will be probably the best thing I could see. I wish the ones who kill it where dead.
Sorry for what happened before Live4speed.

You know guys, there's a program in Argentina called "Cronica"(it means "notice")and sometimes them notices have strange titles like "Old woman is assaulted and the thiefs eat her cake". :D.I wonder what would happen if they had seen this alligator?
 
Very impressive...I wonder what would have happened before guns were popular in people's houses. Would take a lot to kill it without bullets I'd imagine.
 
Famine
Famine's fun fact about 'gators.

Though the muscles which close alligators' jaws are immensely strong, the ones which open them are really appallingly weak. Even this sucker could be rendered harmless with the application of a single elastic band (though it would have to be a pretty big one) and you could certainly hold its jaws shut.
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Yep.

Have you guys seen gators in person, though? It's amazing to hear the pop as their jaws slam shut on something.
 
amp88
Would take a lot to kill it without bullets I'd imagine.
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Nah, it'd be easy to kill. You just hold it's mouth shut and it dies of hunger. 💡

Right who's going to volunteer? Anyone? Anyone?
 
daan
Nah, it'd be easy to kill. You just hold it's mouth shut and it dies of hunger. 💡

Right who's going to volunteer? Anyone? Anyone?
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Indeed. I mean, it's nice to know that putting an elastic band over it's jaws will stop it from eating you, but to be honest, who's really going to be carrying an elastic band and actually be in the mindframe to use it when they're being drowned by an alligator? Or who's going to stab the shark in the eye with a ballpoint pen or lie still for the bear? They're funny or interesting to use in a pub when the conversation has gone quiet but they're not really high up on my advice for life list.
 
Looks kinda tasty actually - not that they taste nice though, would rather have the deer for lunch :)

yeah im hungry :(
 
Famine
Famine's fun fact about 'gators.

Though the muscles which close alligators' jaws are immensely strong, the ones which open them are really appallingly weak. Even this sucker could be rendered harmless with the application of a single elastic band (though it would have to be a pretty big one) and you could certainly hold its jaws shut.
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Hold it shut, yeah. But the problem with 'gators, is that that tail there is pretty dangerous too. The claws are pretty sharp, and could be a problem. I've often seen 'gators and crocodiles in the zoo whole has open wounds cause by the claws - I witnessed such a fight once.
Another way of keeping them away is to have something wide in the way of the jaws - they can't move the head up and down, only horizontally.

And here are some of Gingiba's fun facts about 'gators and crocs (which are very similar):
A bite of the jaws applies 30 times more pressure than the bit of the Labrador. Over short distances, they can reach 30MPH. Compine those, and you have a killing-machine that has been seen catching lions and sharks (Sharks have a bite that is 10 times weaker). Crocodiles are also closer related to birds and dinosaurs than to most reptiles.
 
i would like to now what the thing ate to get so large because no matter how much you eat it will still only grow so long so it must have something to do with what it ate
 
speed_demon
i would like to now what the thing ate
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This not give you any clues?

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Omnis
That's freakin' sweet. The largest I've seen in person is an 18 footer. I fed it a raw chicken. They need to taxidermy that thing and send it to the smithsonian.
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Dude, it's Texas. They're gonna BBQ that sucker and turn his hide into cowboy boots.

Awesome pics!
 
Der Alta
Here's the full story.

I'm really suprised that someone hadn't hit is already. www.snopes.com

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/gatordeer.asp

And the other half of the story.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/wcgator.asp
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i did see this, thats why i posted the site that took the pics of the one in the water and edited the first post, however i can not change the thread title to 13 foot alligator ;)

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2397636&postcount=19
 
They could've moved it to another swamp or something...or maybe in a scientific habitat, where they can study it more....

Another thing is that, It doesn't matter if you can close its jaws with your hands...Alligators get "drill" complex, and you don;t wanna get stuck in one of those...they spin like crazy.


Ciao!
 
Integra Type R
Would you want a giant alligator chillin near your house? Didn't think so.
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Would a giant croc or alligator want you or your house in the middle of it's territory? Didn't think so!:) Seriously, a clear cut reason for why you guys have so many issues with alligators is that you're encroaching too far into their natural habitat. It's a pitty they couldn't relocate it, say, with a gallon of tranquilizers:dopey:.

FormulaGT
 

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