[battousai]

As usual the media takes one part of the story and overblows it. What would they have had him do? Pick up a 9 FOOT gator and throw it into the back of his pickup?? Either that or shoot it right there and risk a richochete hitting the by standers.

Sure it doesn't look pretty, but sometimes you gotta no other options.

I mean what did these whiny residents think he was gonna do with the gator? Talk it into getting into the truck???

[Diddle E. Squat]

My guess is these dolts don't realize that the gator wasn't returned to the wild because having lost its fear/shyness of humans it was much more likely to threaten people and return to urban areas. And sleazeball channel 2 isn't about to educate anyone to that fact. Channel 2 is about the worst example of journalistic theater, the kind that gleefully would throw gasoline on a fire at an orphanage to get better witness 'reactions'.

[Servant of the Nine]

What would they have had him do? Pick up a 9 FOOT gator and throw it into the back of his pickup?? Either that or shoot it right there and risk a richochete hitting the by standers.

If a Game Warden can't shoot well enough to kill a gator on the spot without danger of a ricochete, I expect him to resign in shame and leave the South.

I had to dispose of several nuisance gators when I lived between Houston and the coast, some legally, some not. If you are close enough to get a rope on him, it's just not that difficult.

This game warden was just plain stupid.

So9

[Lucas1]

Quote "Sure it doesn't look pretty, but sometimes you gotta no other option"

Ummm no other option? They take care of this stuff all the time in Florida...THEY DO NOT KILL THE GATORS AND DRAG THEM THROUGH THE STREETS. What an idiot...these guys should be fired.