Do people swim in Lake Conroe???

[Ranger Mom]

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!





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.

[kepdawg]

You've never been swimming with gators?

[Ranger Mom]

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]

Good Grief!!!!!

[piratebg]

My goodness that's a big freakin gator.
They should start calling the place Lake Placid.

[Ranger Mom]

Evidently it DID happen, but not on lake Conroe.

Urban Legends

[wos fan1]

Yea i don't think it happened in Conroe.

[lostaussie]

i saw this pic about 3 years ago.

[j_dog]

It is okay to swim. Gators are not biting this month.

But they MAY bite you!

[AggieJohn]

good cause i'm actually going to conroe this weekend

[hawkfan]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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????