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Ranger Mom
06-29-2006, 07:23 PM
I don't know if this is true, and if it is, I have no clue when it happened. I just got this email though, and that is ONE big alligator.

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.

These 2 pictures were taken by a KTBS helicopter flying over Lake Conroe!
That has to be a HUGE gator to have a whole deer in its mouth!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/KRSimmons/ali-1.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/KRSimmons/ali-2.jpg

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 23-foot, 1-inch alligator that he shot and killed in their back yard.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/KRSimmons/ali-3.jpg
kepdawg
06-29-2006, 07:26 PM
You've never been swimming with gators?
Ranger Mom
06-29-2006, 07:28 PM
Originally posted by kepdawg
You've never been swimming with gators?

I live in West Texas....I rarely swim in anything but a pool!
GreenMonster
06-29-2006, 07:28 PM
Good Grief!!!!!:eek:
piratebg
06-29-2006, 07:29 PM
My goodness that's a big freakin gator.
They should start calling the place Lake Placid.
Ranger Mom
06-29-2006, 07:32 PM
Evidently it DID happen, but not on lake Conroe.

Urban Legends (http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/gatordeer.asp)
wos fan1
06-29-2006, 07:36 PM
Yea i don't think it happened in Conroe.
lostaussie
06-29-2006, 07:43 PM
i saw this pic about 3 years ago.
j_dog
06-29-2006, 08:44 PM
It is okay to swim. Gators are not biting this month. :)

But they MAY bite you! :D
AggieJohn
06-29-2006, 08:58 PM
good cause i'm actually going to conroe this weekend
hawkfan
06-29-2006, 09:38 PM
Originally posted by wos fan1
Yea i don't think it happened in Conroe.

Yeah in between Athens and Palesinte is no where near Lake Conroe. And I don't think Alligators get to be 23 feet long.
AggieJohn
06-30-2006, 07:45 AM
Originally posted by hawkfan
Yeah in between Athens and Palesinte is no where near Lake Conroe. And I don't think Alligators get to be 23 feet long. i had to do my thoughts on that
WOS1
06-30-2006, 08:59 AM
The story about the 23' alligator in Palestine is real. It is a record, the old one was 19'. The photos of it hanging from the chain is real as well. I read about it in our local paper.

The one with the alligator and the deer in Lake Conroe is the one that's BS.
Ranger Mom
06-30-2006, 09:02 AM
Originally posted by WOS1
The story about the 23' alligator in Palestine is real. It is a record, the old one was 19'. The photos of it hanging from the chain is real as well. I read about it in our local paper.

The one with the alligator and the deer in Lake Conroe is the one that's BS.

After reading about it on the Snopes sight, I noticed that the picture of the alligator hanging was not included and figured they were probably two separate stories.
WOS1
06-30-2006, 09:19 AM
Yes RM, they are 2 seperate stories.

I know you have had problems with reptiles visiting your back yard. Could you imagine one of this magnitude chilling on your back porch????:)
3afan
06-30-2006, 09:22 AM
Originally posted by WOS1
The story about the 23' alligator in Palestine is real. It is a record, the old one was 19'. The photos of it hanging from the chain is real as well. I read about it in our local paper.

The one with the alligator and the deer in Lake Conroe is the one that's BS.

its probably like the 'hogzilla' stories --- the 23' gator was probably a 15 footer that grew over the years
Ranger Mom
06-30-2006, 09:27 AM
Originally posted by WOS1
Yes RM, they are 2 seperate stories.

I know you have had problems with reptiles visiting your back yard. Could you imagine one of this magnitude chilling on your back porch????:)

LOL!! NO!

I don't think my trusty shovel would handle that particular reptile!
Gobbla2001
06-30-2006, 12:13 PM
I swim in Lake Texana (if I'm there) and there are big ones like that there too...

I laugh in the face of alligators...
WOS1
06-30-2006, 04:41 PM
Originally posted by 3afan
its probably like the 'hogzilla' stories --- the 23' gator was probably a 15 footer that grew over the years

That is the real length and the photo of the gator hanging up is the real photo. It was 23' long, the longest one found, to this date, in the US.
DU_stud04
06-30-2006, 04:48 PM
Originally posted by Gobbla2001
I swim in Lake Texana (if I'm there) and there are big ones like that there too...

I laugh in the face of alligators...

haahaha....like that? cause if i saw one i would laugh too....like this..."AHHHHHHH!" :D
wedo
06-30-2006, 05:21 PM
Man i kill gators for fun!!!!!
3afan
06-30-2006, 05:30 PM
Originally posted by WOS1
That is the real length and the photo of the gator hanging up is the real photo. It was 23' long, the longest one found, to this date, in the US.

there was a photo of hogzilla too .........
Gobbla2001
06-30-2006, 05:34 PM
Originally posted by DU_stud04
haahaha....like that? cause if i saw one i would laugh too....like this..."AHHHHHHH!" :D

Aint gunna lie, wouldn't enjoy being in the water with one haulin' tale at me, but they're fun to play with if you know they're there...

And they don't taste too damn bad either...