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Friend sent me this in an E-mail.
Kind of lame they killed it IMO. I don't know how they would have caught it lol, but it sucks they couldn't have just re-located it.
Kind of lame they killed it IMO. I don't know how they would have caught it lol, but it sucks they couldn't have just re-located it.
>This picture was taken by a KTBS helicopter
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>flying over Lake Wiess about 90 miles north of Birmingham!
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>That has to be a HUGE gator to have a whole deer in its mouth!
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>Are you ready to go skiing on Lake Wiess?!
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>If you ski at the west end of the lake -- try not to fall.
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>This alligator was found between Centre and Leesburg, Alabama near a
>house! Game wardens were
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>forced to shoot the alligator-
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>guess he wouldn't cooperate...
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>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.
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> "I didn't believe it," Charles Rogers said, but they realized the
>stories were, if anything, understated.
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>Alabama Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast. Joe
>Goff, 6'5" tall, a game warden, walks past the 23-foot, 1-inch
>alligator he shot and killed in their back yard.