P.S. Are these LEGAL alligators?
Hey, if they start harvesting more, I can afford a pair of alligator boots.
Hunting without a license?
susie
The heck with the alligators; I'm still trying to imagine the manatee woman.
But at about 5:45 p.m. Saturday, Frey was in the front of her house when she heard her two golden retrievers, Sammy and Annie, frantically barking.
Sammy was bleeding from his head when Frey walked onto her lanai.
"I have to take this guy out," Frey recalled thinking. "You can't wait to see how long it's going to sit there."
Gripping the gun with two hands, Frey squeezed the trigger four times. The shots hit their mark -- two in the alligator's neck and two in its shoulder.
A gator climbs on this woman's property and she defends her dogs...and she gets a citation for "hunting without a license." Un-freepin-believable.
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If I lived there, I'd darn sure get a permit. :-)
Keep send tourists and we'll keep feeding them to the gators :)
Part of the problem that I have personally observed many times is Florida has seen a huge influx of people from the north, and many of the folks have little situational awareness, or worse, have been trained in wildlife behavior by the movie "Bambi".
LOL! My new tagline.
Huh???
We need a "Guest Gator" program now.
If I recall correctly, wasn't there an uptick in the reports of shark attacks just prior to 9/11?
I just love the tone of this article - the alligator's attacking this woman's dogs, lunging at her, and the "journalist" makes it sound like she and others in this situation are the one who are hysterically overreacting! I guess now we're supposed to just sit back and do nothing while aggressive gators take our dogs, take our kids or tear us to pieces.
I expected nothing more from the SHT, of course.
You got to be kidding me? Protect your own life from a gator attack, and get charged for hunting without a permit. Like she really went hunting for the gator? Asinine!
Frey said the gunshot wounds appeared to self-heal and the wildlife officer put the gator back in the lake.
The officer questioned Frey about the shooting.
Frey thought she was going to jail, but ended up with a warning citation for hunting without a permit.
The funny part is that in Florida if a person came onto her property, attacked her dog, and she shot him, there would be no citation.
Jetskiing with the gators is fun, my rules are
1. Don't fall off
2. Don't fall off
3. If the gator is longer than my jetski-(11'6") stay 50ft away.
"These are unfortunate, unrelated coincidences," Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Willie Puz said."
Obviously he is unaware of the recent gator fatwa against humans and their pets infringing on their scared territory. It's gator jihad I tell you.
Until recently though I never heard of gators coming on land to attack humans, plenty of pets however go missing all the time.
"Frey thought she was going to jail, but ended up with a warning citation for hunting without a permit."
Oh please! Even the thought she should be questioned is ridiculous. Tying this in with "hunting" is ridiculous.
Absurdity reigns!
"The shots hit their mark -- two in the alligator's neck and two in its shoulder. The gator barely bled, she said."
Do we know the caliber?