An Alligator Right Out Of Jurassic Park Was Found And Killed In Florida
Fox - A pair of Florida hunters bagged a 15-foot, 800-pound alligator Saturday and photos of the massive specimen have gone viral. Lee Lightsey, the owner of Outwest Farms in Okeechobee, and hunting guide Blake Godwin discovered the alligator in one their cattle ponds while on a guided hunt. They believe the gator had been feasting on the farm’s cattle. “We … discovered the remains what we determined to be cattle in the water. We determined that he was in fact attacking our livestock as they came to drink,” Godwin told Fox13. Photos posted on the farm’s Facebook page showed the alligator dangling from the tractor. Godwin insisted the photos weren’t a belated April Fool’s Day joke. “It is hard to believe that something this big exists in the wild,” Godwin said. “Hunting is a way of life for us and we are very proud of it.” The pair plan to donate the gator’s meat to charity and have the alligator taxidermied for display at their hunting shows and expos.
When it comes to animals, I’m basically just anti-shark. But even sharks have found a way into my heart by being so anti-authority that I have no choice but to respect them. I’ve 180’d on sharks so hard because all they do is keep attacking kids without any regard for their feelings that I just have to give them a polite golf clap. When the world says no, sharks say yes. That’s the sort of attitude I can respect. Now I say all that because this 800 pound gator has thrown me for a complete loop. I want to like this thing. I want to hate the people that killed it. But I have seen way too many movies and I know this gator is nothing but trouble. I’m actually shocked it didn’t power back to life and snatch that kid in his jaws and drag him back into the swamp in the blink of an eye. Awfully, awfully cocky to take a picture like that, young buck. Watch a movie one time for me and you know you’re just waiting to be gator food. That gator is straight out of Jurassic Park to the point it was eating the farm’s cattle for sustenance. Wait until they find out there are more mega-gators where that thing came from. There’s never just one. And it’s friend is going to be out for revenge. Therefor, I don’t think we have much else of a choice:
See ya Florida. We put up with your meth, we put up with your ridiculous antics, but we don’t have to put up with your 15 foot, 800 pound gators. Time to strip their star off the flag and only give it back when they earn it.