Huge Gator!!!! - Truckers' Trucking Forum

kickin chicken · **^ Top** #1 09.04.2009

The picture below, was taken by a KTBS helicopter flying over Lake Wiess about 90 miles north of Birmingham , Alabama . The helicopter pilot and the game warden were in communication via radios;
following is a transcript of their conversation:

'Air1.., have you a visual on the gator? Over. '

'Approaching inlet now; over.'

'Roger, Air1.'

'Gator sighted. Looks like it has a small animal in its mouth. Moving in; over.'

'Roger, Air1.'

'It's a deer !!! '

'Confirm, Air1! Did you say 'deer'? Over.'

'Roger. A deer, in its mouth. Looks like a full-sized buck .
That's a BIG Gator! We're gonna need more men. Over.'

'Roger, Air1. Can you give me a idea on size of animal? Over.'

'It's big... 25 feet long.....at least !!!
Please advise;
gator is heading to 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!
Are you ready to go skiing on Lake Wiess ?!

If you ski at the west end of the lake, try not to fall!!!

This alligator was found between Centre and Leesburg , Alabama , 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 the Rogers ' house, but they dismissed the stories as exaggerations.

'I didn't believe it,' Charles Rogers said; however, they later 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 metres) he shot and killed in the Rogers ' backyard.

Baack · **^ Top** #2 09.04.2009

I hope they at least let him finish his venison dinner

Coonass · **^ Top** #3 09.04.2009

I'd love to fry up the tail meat on that thing!!

simplyred1962 · **^ Top** #4 09.04.2009

WOW!!!

Pawnd · **^ Top** #5 09.04.2009

I'll admit it's a big gator,

But no where near 28', that would make that the biggest backhoe I've ever seen. Even if it were extended vertical only 21 feet or so. So would guess the animal is 13 to 15 feet long.

Then an 11 foot long swamp deer?? Dang that's way bigger than a Holstein.

Peanut Butter · **^ Top** #6 09.04.2009

Man that gator must have been eating deer for quite awhile to get than dang big, i sure wouldnt want to run into one of them unless i had a gun thats for sure.

kinnakeet04 · **^ Top** #7 09.07.2009

For the neighbors sake I hope he or she doesn't have any big brothers or sisters.

brsims · **^ Top** #8 09.07.2009

Dang it! Didn't I tell all you people in Alabama to quit feeding the yankees to the Gators? I realize we're annoying, but now look at what you done!

irnndn · **^ Top** #9 09.10.2009

I saw this several years ago. That Gator is actually in GA near the SC boarder. They do grow em big there.

I used to fish the Savannah River quite often in a john boat, and more than once was uncomfortable enough to give the really big ones my fishing hole. I never saw one that big, but saw several I would have guessed at 12 ft or more.

Also that dead one is not the same gator, he was killed in Texas.

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