Author Topic: GATOR! (Read 5242 times)

michael arvilla · « **on:** January 28, 2008, 06:49:42 PM »

(close to home)

not so good...................

Eric2 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 28, 2008, 06:54:29 PM »

COME AND GET IT!!!!!!

Eric2 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 28, 2008, 06:55:49 PM »

YoungBlood · « **Reply #3 on:** January 28, 2008, 06:56:05 PM »

I've seen the last two photos NUMEROUS times over, oh I don't know, the last 5-8 years I've been on the net!!!!

Sorry Mike, you're busted!!! (But that gator IS truly huge...must be that Florida water eh?)

JohnnyVegas · « **Reply #4 on:** January 28, 2008, 06:56:59 PM »

WOW!

Is that a deer in his mouth in the water pics???

Looks a little smaller in the water pics, must be because of the distance....

JOHN MATRIX · « **Reply #5 on:** January 28, 2008, 07:05:29 PM »

the deer pics are very old, and the gator there looks to be hardly pushing 10 feet.
the first pic looks cool but no way to determine scale

Laura Lee · « **Reply #6 on:** January 29, 2008, 04:39:35 AM »

Mike, post the article.

michael arvilla · « **Reply #7 on:** January 29, 2008, 04:40:18 AM »

Quote from: YoungBlood on January 28, 2008, 06:56:05 PM

I've seen the last two photos NUMEROUS times over, oh I don't know, the last 5-8 years I've been on the net!!!!

Sorry Mike, you're busted!!! (But that gator IS truly huge...must be that Florida water eh?)

this is the text that came with the pics (sent in an e-mail )

The alligator was found ... near a house ,

Game Wardens were forced to shoot the alligator- guess he wouldn't cooperate.

Jayne and Don Hobkirk could hear the bellowing in the night. Their neighbors had been telling them
that they had seen a mammoth alligar in the Lake that runs behind their house, but they dismissed the stories as being exaggerations.

"I didn't believe it," Don Hobkirk said.

Friday they realized the stories were, if anything, understated.

Florida Game and Parks game wardens had to shoot the beast...

Joe Goff, 6' 5" tall, a game warden with the Florida Game and Parks Commission, walks past the 23-foot, one inch alligator that he shot and killed in the back yard of Jayne & Don Hobkirk...

michael arvilla · « **Reply #8 on:** January 29, 2008, 04:50:45 AM »

here is a video (different gator but still huge)
http://www.local6.com/news/9237092/detail.html

m8 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 29, 2008, 04:52:13 AM »

My contribution

Laura Lee · « **Reply #10 on:** January 29, 2008, 05:15:03 AM »

Quote from: m8 on January 29, 2008, 04:52:13 AM

My contribution

OMG!!!

michael arvilla · « **Reply #11 on:** January 29, 2008, 05:15:26 AM »

After "googling"and reading all i could find my take is: Gator on crane is most likely a "fake" picture
gator in water/deer in mouth/pics taken by helicopter obviously very real,channel 6 newsgator again obviously real ..............so these giant monsters do exist (a throwback to the dinosaur days that somehow survived and adapted)

pretty cool!

Samourai Pizzacat · « **Reply #12 on:** January 29, 2008, 06:15:31 AM »

Gators/crocodiles are reptilians and probably branched of from the marine Mesosuchia druing the Jurassic-creteacious transition. They're basically living fossils, practically unchanged for more than a 100 million years. The fact that crocs as reptiles are cold blooded and can remain dormant for long periods of time probably saved their hides during the cataclysmic meteor impact 64 milion years ago.

trivia: the biggest fossil croc found is Deinosuchus aka Phobosuchus and was supposedly 45 feet long with a skull that measered 6-7 feet.

SteelePegasus · « **Reply #13 on:** January 29, 2008, 06:22:46 AM »

Quote from: Samourai Pizzacat on January 29, 2008, 06:15:31 AM

Gators/crocodiles are reptilians and probably branched of from the marine Mesosuchia druing the Jurassic-creteacious transition. They're basically living fossils, practically unchanged for more than a 100 million years. The fact that crocs as reptiles are cold blooded and can remain dormant for long periods of time probably saved their hides during the cataclysmic meteor impact 64 milion years ago.

trivia: the biggest fossil croc found is Deinosuchus aka Phobosuchus and was supposedly 45 feet long with a skull that measered 6-7 feet.

who much could it bench and squat?

dr.chimps · « **Reply #14 on:** January 29, 2008, 06:35:57 AM »

Pffft. I thought this was a Burt Reynolds' moonshining thread.

Samourai Pizzacat · « **Reply #15 on:** January 29, 2008, 06:40:15 AM »

Quote from: SteelePegasus on January 29, 2008, 06:22:46 AM

who much could it bench and squat?

a fair question! close to 2000 lbs bench is a guestimate, make that 2800 with a 4 ply bench suit. fossil records of Eusuchi benchsuits are as of yet unknown though...

delta9mda · « **Reply #16 on:** January 29, 2008, 06:44:34 AM »

Quote from: michael arvilla on January 29, 2008, 05:15:26 AM

After "googling"and reading all i could find my take is: Gator on crane is most likely a "fake" picture
gator in water/deer in mouth/pics taken by helicopter obviously very real,channel 6 newsgator again obviously real ..............so these giant monsters do exist (a throwback to the dinosaur days that somehow survived and adapted)

pretty cool!

Mike, i am telling you, no gators over 15-17 ft and that would be a huge gator. 12 ft and 600 pounds, yes. 21 ft gator, no.

sgt. d · « **Reply #17 on:** January 29, 2008, 06:56:04 AM »

Why are they hurting the poor innocent gator?

phreak · « **Reply #18 on:** January 29, 2008, 06:59:08 AM »

Quote from: michael arvilla on January 29, 2008, 04:40:18 AM

Game Wardens were forced to shoot the alligator

They should have tazed it.

Blockhead · « **Reply #19 on:** January 29, 2008, 06:59:32 AM »

Oh, disregard. I thought this was a thread about fallen skateboarder Mark 'GATOR' Rogowlski from the Vision Street Wear days.

phreak · « **Reply #20 on:** January 29, 2008, 07:00:34 AM »

Quote from: sgt. d on January 29, 2008, 06:56:04 AM

Why are they hurting the poor innocent gator?

Indeed.

"Let's go live next to a gator-infested stream!"
"OMG! Gator! Who'da thunk it! Kill it!"

:rolleyes:

sgt. d · « **Reply #21 on:** January 29, 2008, 11:38:54 AM »

Quote from: phreak on January 29, 2008, 07:00:34 AM

Indeed.

"Let's go live next to a gator-infested stream!"
"OMG! Gator! Who'da thunk it! Kill it!"

:rolleyes:

I love gators. They make great pets.

D_1000 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 29, 2008, 11:43:21 AM »

Quote from: sgt. d on January 29, 2008, 11:38:54 AM

I love gators. They make great pets.

And boots.

Deadpool · « **Reply #23 on:** January 29, 2008, 11:44:39 AM »

Quote from: phreak on January 29, 2008, 06:59:08 AM

They should have tazed it.

lololoz

Armstrong · « **Reply #24 on:** January 29, 2008, 05:26:06 PM »

Holy Crap! Here in Dallas they caught a crocdile like that. Rare site in these parts. I think it was from a zoo.

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