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This alligator was found between Orlando and Titusville, Florida near a house. How would you like to meet this fella in the dark? Never let it be said that we don't grow them big in Florida .

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. Florida Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast. Joe Goff, 6'5" tall, a game warden with the Florida Parks and Wildlife Department, walks past a 23-foot, 1-inch alligator that he shot and killed in the Rogers' back yard.

Gives a whole new meaning to "alligator shoes" doesn't it???
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I remember ... 15-16 yrs old, we rented a house in FLA with a waterway through the back yard. The old lady opposite us beat a gator off her lawn with a broom. We even saw a couple shark fins running through the water .... no, we didn't swim :)

Oh, ya ... also had the biggest, nasty-a$$ spider in the backyard that I have ever seen.
 
Hey Sher, my grandfather moved to a moblie home park in Sarasota and when I was 10 yrs. old we visited him. They had a pond that an alligator lived in and some ducks. Seems like the ducks would have not survived, but anyway they all just considered it the park pet alligator. I used to go down to the pond and hang out and watch the alligator. I stood on the little bridge as I was afraid of it, but fascinated at the same time. No one thought much about it back then. When I was older they killed the alligator as it bit a kid's arm. No kidding! Well, duh!!! I can't believe I was allowed to go down by the pond while they knew an alligator was roaming around. I'm glad I had the sense to stand on the bridge. Sheesh!!!
 
Sher said:
Gives a whole new meaning to "alligator shoes" doesn't it???
Sher
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ya...a whole wardrobe fulla shoes!!
I wonder what the world record is for alligators....they're NOT supposed to GET that big!!
 
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