Posted on 11/27/2012 8:39:21 AM PST by Stoat
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Sheriff's deputies found two 5-foot alligators at a marijuana grow site where a man was shot on Monday evening.
Thurston County sheriff's Lt. Greg Elwin said deputies responded to the scene in the Scott Lake area south of Olympia when a man called 911 to say he had shot another man.
The shooter told investigators that he fired in self defense, but investigators believe he actually shot the other man during drug buy.
The 30-year-old man who was shot was taken to Providence St. Peter Hospital and was expected to recover.
The gunman, identified as 41-year-old Darren C. Shore, was booked into jail for investigation of attempted murder.
Elwin said the alligators found by deputies were likely being used to protect the drugs. The sheriff's office is working with county Animal Services to determine what will happen to the alligators.
"snicker" ;-)
Do gators grow very fast? Maybe he got them small because they were easier to smuggle out of The South and thought that he'd try to grow them into bigger, more serious pot-guardians. If they grow fast maybe it would be only a couple of years or so before they were of a size that would be more of an attention-getter ;-)
Down her in Mississippi, 5-foot gators won't protect anything. They'd more likely end up in a stew pot to help ease the munchies after the crop was confiscated from the fools who thought a 5-foot gator would deter anyone. I guess them Washington folks are more prone to jumpiness than we are.
Actually that could be another WA post.
Texas's “Don't Mess with Texas”
(Yeah, I know the motto is really “Friendship”.)
Sound's Gay- Gay Ha!
Washington's “Don't &u$k with our POT PLANTs
I’m guessing he thought that they’d be easier to transport up here while they’re small, and then he can grow them as big as they can get up here as his “pets”.
I’m guessing he thought that they’d be easier to transport up here while they’re small, and then he can grow them as big as they can get up here as his “pets”.
Years and years ago when our family business was in Michigan we had a customer for a prank send a 4-5’ gator up in their truck from Georgia wrapped in a burlap sack in a large tote of water.
We laughed about it then turned it loose into the Huron river at a state park not knowing what else to do with it, or wanting to get caught with it.
What we didn’t think of was all the canoeist who are on the river wildlife viewing. Thank God we didn’t tell too many people what we had done, the story was all over the news that summer and the DNR guys was not looking happy about it when interviewed.
Did they eat the drugs?
Or just the guard dogs?
Naughty, naughty...
Yep...we aren’t even allowed to call Animal Control unless they are over SIX feet.
Did the police shoot the gators or do they just save their bullets for puppies?
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