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Woman Puts Alligator in Her Back Seat
AP ^
| February 25, 2003
Posted on 02/25/2003 7:37:34 AM PST by Indy Pendance
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Leslie Strickland said she had nothing but good intentions when she loaded a badly hurt 6-foot alligator into the back seat of her car and took it home to Port Charlotte.
The 49-year-old woman had hit the animal with her car Friday night and went back to rescue it Saturday - but wound up spending a night in jail, charged with possession of an alligator, a felony in Florida.
Police also charged her with driving with a suspended license and walking away from the scene of an accident, leaving the injured alligator in the back seat.
"I knew I was in trouble, and I panicked and I left," Strickland said by phone Monday. "I had a felony in the back seat, and I just didn't know what to do."
On Saturday, Strickland said she drove the gator home, wetted it down with hose and then tried unsuccessfully to reach somebody with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
After neighbors told her it was illegal to have the animal, she loaded it in the car again and drove off in search of a pond to release it.
But the alligator started to thrash its tail, she said. Distracted, she veered off the road and hit a mailbox. Witnesses told police she tried to drive off, but her car got stuck in the ditch. So she got out and walked away.
Police arrested Strickland at her home nearby, adding a charge of resisting arrest after she struggled with officers who tried to handcuff her. She said she "freaked out" at the prospect of going to jail.
The game commission finally removed the alligator from the car; it died later.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: alligator; backseatfelony; florida; stupidmoron; uf
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To: Indy Pendance
We got thousands of damned Timber Rattlers in the neighborhood & surrounding hills
and the danged DNR has them protected...with big fines for killing the things...
regardless of how many humans or pets they bite..
To: Jeff Chandler
How does one get a 6 FOOT ALLIGAT0R in the BACK SEAT of their car!???!?!?!?!?!?!? What am I missing?
To: FeliciaCat
I am sure you thought it, but I'll say it, She was up to elbows in alligators.
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:03:33 AM PST
by
appeal2
To: FeliciaCat
VERY carefully....
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:03:38 AM PST
by
Dutch14
(Dive! Dive! Dive!)
To: Indy Pendance
"Ah cite the defendant for contempt for bring that cold slimey reptile into ma court! Anyway's ah thought that 'gator was dead."
"Y'honor, that's my lawyer."
To: FeliciaCat
How does one comply with those damn seatbelt laws with a six foot alligator? They charged her with everything else!
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:04:16 AM PST
by
blackdog
("But that's what I do" A quote from my Border Collie)
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; AntiGuv; dubyaismypresident; Grani; ...
"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....If you want on or off this list, please let me know!
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:05:13 AM PST
by
mhking
To: Indy Pendance
"I had a felony in the back seat, and I just didn't know what to do."She must've wrestled hard with her dilema.
To: BlueLancer; Jeff Chandler
>>... they don't have moose in Floriduh...the aligators keep them away!
They're dissin' your boyz over here. ;-)
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:05:57 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(This Space Intentionally Blank)
To: gridlock; Chapita; freeeee; Old Professer
After yesterday's thread, y'all just have to see this one!
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:07:23 AM PST
by
LBGA
To: Indy Pendance
What a great story. Probably another bleeding heart Bambi lover got to enjoy nature at its best.
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:07:42 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
(Stamp out Freepathons! Stop being a Freep Loader! Become a monthly donor!)
To: stainlessbanner; Jeff Chandler
Couldn't resist.
Amos Moses
Jerry Reed
(Reed)
Super Hits Of The 70's, Vol. 3
Yeah here comes Amos
Now Amos Moses was a Cajun
He lived by himself in the swamp
He hunted alligator for a living
He'd just knock them in the head with a stump
The Louisiana law gonna get you Amos
It ain't legal hunting alligator down in the swamp boy
Now everyone blamed his old man
For making him mean as a snake
When Amos Moses was a boy
His daddy would use him for alligator bait
Tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp
Alligator man in the Louisiana bayou
About forty-five minutes south of Tippitoe Louisiana
Lived a man called Dr. Mills South and his pretty wife Hannah
They raised up a son who could eat his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth
Called him Amos Moses
Now the folks around south Louisiana
Said Amos was a hell of a man
He could trap the biggest meanest alligator
And he'd just use one hand
That's all he got left cause an alligator bit it
Left arm gone clear up to the elbow
Well the sheriff caught wind that Amos was up in the swamp
Trading alligator skins
So he snuck in the swamp gonna get the boy
But he never came out
Well I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went to
Well you can sure get lost in the Louisiana bayou
About forty-five minutes south of Tippitoe Louisiana
Lived a cat named Dr. Mills South and his pretty wife Hannah
They raised up a son who could eat his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth
Called him Amos Moses
I know son
Make it count son
About forty-five minutes south of Tippitoe Louisiana...
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:08:15 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
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To: Indy Pendance
"Hello, 911...""I need a bambulance!"
"Where are you, sir?""I'm in the mutha-f*****' phone booth!"
??!!
(after much in the way of attempted conversation) "What happened sir?"
"After I hit the deer, I put it in the back seat, but after I started driving, it woke up!"
Guaranteed to bring tears to your eyes if you can ever find the audio file of it...
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:08:16 AM PST
by
mhking
To: DainBramage
"You see your honor, A woman and an alligator walk into a bar....Well, to make a long story short....."
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:09:10 AM PST
by
blackdog
("But that's what I do" A quote from my Border Collie)
To: Jeff Chandler; dighton; aculeus; general_re; L,TOWM; Experiment 6-2-6
"...... they don't have moose in Floriduh...the aligators keep them away!"Well, they must be p*ss-weak Møøse then. Up in Michigan, where I used to live, we didn't have any alligators because the Møøse kept biting them.
Someone told them that they were somebody's sister.
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:10:19 AM PST
by
BlueLancer
(Der Elite Møøsenspåånkængruppen ØberKømmååndø (EMØØK))
To: FreedomPoster
To: blackdog
"Like I said your honor, the officer said to take him to the zoo,
and he had so much fun I thought we would go to six flags tomorrow."
To: joesnuffy
We got thousands of damned Timber Rattlers in the neighborhood & surrounding hills and the danged DNR has them protected...with big fines for killing the things... regardless of how many humans or pets they bite..
Sneaky question: if you kill 'em and put the meat in chili (like Xena's Dad used to do), and dispose of the skin, how does the DNR know what you've done?
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:19:27 AM PST
by
Xenalyte
To: Xenalyte
if you kill 'em and put the meat in chili (like Xena's Dad used to do), and dispose of the skin, how does the DNR know what you've done?"Nice shoes..."
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:26:43 AM PST
by
mhking
To: Spruce
Is possession of a Camen a lesser charge?I believe it depends on the state you live in? I live in COlorado, and have a 5 foot boa constrictor & two piranha, but to get a camen (which I pondered for a short time, and decided against), you have to have a state license.
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posted on
02/25/2003 8:27:03 AM PST
by
dware
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