Monday, April 12, 2010

Incredible!!!!!!!!

This
Picture was taken by a helicopter flying over Lake Weiss
About 90 miles north of Birmingham, Alabama
.....


The
Helicopter pilot and the game warden were in communication
Via radio's. Here is a transcript of their conversation.



'Air 1 have you a visual on the gator, over'


'Approaching inlet now, over'


'Roger Air 1'


'Gator sighted.. Looks like it has a small animal in its mouth..
Moving in, over'


'Roger Air 1'


'Holy Crap it's a Deer!'
('Holy crap', is I assume military code for "you are not going to believe this."

'Confirm Air 1.. Did you say Deer?, Over'


'Roger.. A Deer in its mouth.. Looks like a full sized buck.. that's
A big gator, we are going to need more men, Over'


'Roger Air 1.. Can you give me a idea on size of animal,
Over


'It's big 25 feet at least, please advise Gator is heading to
Inlet.. Do I pursue?, over'


The deer was later found to be a mature Stag and was measured at
11 feet!


This alligator was found between Centre and Leesburg , Alabama ,
Near a house ! Game wardens were forced to shoot the alligator


Joe Goff, 6'5' tall, a game warden, walks past the 28 foot, 1 inch (8.5 meters) alligator

Courtesy of Dianne Olds Rossi

2 comments:

Freiheitsdressur said...

Thank you Wade and Diane, this is awesome! I wonder why they couldn't find a zoo, preserve, or somewhere else to house it, rather than kill it? Way too big, I guess.
-Chris

Anonymous said...

That story is one of those urban ledgends. The gator shown hanging was 13 1/2 feet, captured in Texas

The first pics were of a gator taken in South Carolina but not captured

The transcript is an email that was made up to acompany the pictures:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/wcgator.asp

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/gatordeer.asp

Still big gators though