Twenty-eight Foot Long Gator Creates Stir in Alabama
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Joe Goff, a 6'5' tall game warden, walks past the 28 foot, 1 inch alligator (8.5 meters) he shot and killed in their back yard.
. . . a Deer in its mouth. Looks like a full sized buck. That's a big gator.
This picture was taken by a helicopter flying over Lake Weiss, about 90 miles north of Birmingham, Alabama.
The helicopter pilot and the game warden were in communication via radio. Here is a transcript of their conversation.
'Air 1, have you a visual on the gator, over'
'Approaching inlet now, over'
'Roger Air 1'
'Gator sighted. Looks like it has a small animal in its mouth. Moving in, over'
'Roger Air 1'
'Holy Crap . . . it's a Deer!'
'Confirm Air 1 . . . did you say Deer? Over'
'Roger . . . a Deer in its mouth. Looks like a full sized buck. That's a big gator, we are going to need more men. Over'
'Roger Air 1. Can you give me an idea on the size of the animal, Over'
'It's Big! 25 feet at least, please advise . . . Gator is heading to the inlet, do I pursue? Over'
That has to be a HUGE gator to have a whole deer in its mouth!
The deer was later found to be a mature Stag and was measured at 11 feet!
This alligator was found between Centre and Leesburg, Alabama, near a house! Game wardens were forced to shoot the alligator that Anita and Charlie Rogers could hear 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, but they realized the stories were, if anything, understated.
Alabama Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast.
Joe Goff, a 6'5' tall game warden, walks past the 28 foot, 1 inch alligator (8.5 meters) he shot and killed in their back yard.
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