Texas-sized gator

[riverracer]

Here is another reason to stay out of the ditches and bayous.


This was found at Bar X, which is between Angleton and West Columbia, near a house. How would you like to meet this fella in the dark? Never let it be said that we don't grown them big in Texas.

Game wardens forced to shoot alligator <guess he wouldn't cooperate>
Published April 16, 2005

WEST COLUMBIA - Anita and Charlie Rogers could hear the bellowing in the night.

Her neighbors in Bar X Ranch had been telling them they had seen a giant alligator in the bayou 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. Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast. Joe Goff, a game warden with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, walks past a 13-foot, 1-inch
alligator that he shot and killed in the back yard of the home at the Bar X Ranch on FM 521 near West Columbia.

[Treibenschnell]

We had one half that size lurking behind my station in Jacksonville, Florida. One of my then idiot employees would feed the damned thing off of our back deck.

[Titus]

Yikes!