Posted on 08/20/2019 10:37:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
ug. 16 (UPI) -- A 7-foot crocodile was found swimming in an Ohio creek while about 16 kids from a local church group were playing in the water nearby.
Rick Turnbull, an instructor with Hilltop Equestrian Center, said the children, first- through sixth-graders, were playing in Bantas Fork Creek when one of the adults supervising the group spotted a shadow in the water.
The adults quickly got the children out of the water and the adults then got a clear look at the crocodile lurking 20 feet away. Turnbull said the crocodile swam right up to the bridge where the group gathered to look at it.
"He wasn't afraid of us. He swam under it, popped his head up and looked at us," Turnbull told CNN.
Wildlife Officer Brad Turner was summoned to the scene. He said the crocodile was killed out of concern for public safety.
State wildlife officials said the crocodile was likely a pet that escaped or was released into the wild when it became too large to keep. They said an investigation into the reptile's origins is underway.
What kind of *ss lets a crocodile loose in a stream in Ohio? If they find the *ss that did this, they should put him behind bars for a long, long time.
And raccoons are cute but will kill and eat kittens.puppies. chicks,your food once they tear through the window screen, chew up your textiles and books.poop on everything, and likely give you rabies if one bites you.
Sometimes the best solution is kill the varmints.
Disney movies aren’t reality.
Bears don’t sing and dance; bears will kill and eat anything INCLUDING humans.As will the “noble” wolves”.
Alligators,crocodiles, and their like see humans as potential meals.
Normally in the USA there are only indigenous crocodiles at the tip of Florida. There are from time to time reports of gators, and now a croc, in northern waters and they often turn out to be pets that got too big for their aquaria and were “freed” in streams or storm sewers.
more rather than less
That’s pretty big for a Croc that was probably someone’s pet a month ago.
CHOOT CHOOT!
This Summer they’ve found THREE alligators roaming around Pittsburgh neighborhoods.
All supposedly linked to some kook living in a row house who was keeping a menagerie of exotic animals.
From the UPI? Then where’s the reference to it’s Trump’s fault and he must be impeached?
That’s all “news” reporting amounts to these days when the left is involved.
Didn’t some dude recently catch a ‘gator in Illinois?
Would it be unnecessary to kill after it ate your kid? Crocodiles don’t distinguish between kids and anything other source of a meal.
They all got out of the water safely and no one was hurt, thank the Lord, so once it was a known danger they could have captured it and taken it to a zoo or refuge.
We have gators here in Florida all the time popping up in residential places, but they don’t kill them, just capture and relocate.
I hope they catch whoever brought that animal to Ohio and let it loose, then punish them for their stupidity.........
“I’ve never had it, but my daughter said it tastes like chicken.”
If you plan to kill and cook one to try it, save this link on how to skin and prep it. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exv6J0mUk5A
“they don’t kill them, just capture and relocate”
You might want to do a little more research...
https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/wildlife/alligator/snap/
Read the section on why they don’t relocate nuisance alligators. They “harvest” them. Almost a quarter million of them... ever had alligator appetizer?
Under Florida law, it’s a third-degree felony to kill or injure an alligator, so don’t try to poison or harm one to get rid of it.
In Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Texas, you are required to obtain a license or permit to kill wild alligators.
In Florida, however, alligators can only be killed if deemed a nuisance by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
If the gator can be safely captured and relocated, then that is what they do...................
Not every alligator is deemed a ‘nuisance’. Certainly if it is in a residential area it can be, but here the FWC usually just traps them and move them out on teh reservation.................
From the Florida Fish and Wildlife website:
Why does the FWC not relocate nuisance alligators in Florida?
Florida has a healthy and stable alligator population. We have about 1.3 million alligators in Florida. Alligators live in all 67 counties, and they inhabit all wild areas of Florida that can support them. The removal of nuisance alligators does not have a significant impact on our state’s alligator population.
Relocated alligators often try to return to their capture site. They can create problems for people or other alligators along the way. If an alligator successfully returns, capturing it again would be necessary and likely more difficult the second time.
To avoid creating a problem at the release site, nuisance alligators would need to be relocated to remote areas where they would not encounter people. These remote areas already have healthy alligator populations, and the ones that already live there have established social structures. The introduction of a new alligator to these areas would likely cause fighting, possibly resulting in the death of a resident alligator or the introduced alligator.
Same policy in all southern states. Here in SC an approved contractor for alligator removal recently lost his contractor status because he didn’t kill the gators.
The crocodile was just confused. It meant to go to Miami, Florida, and instead found itself on the way to Miami of Ohio.
It must have been on Spirit Airlines.................
I know bears do, even 500 miles away, so they euthanize them, but I never heard of a relocated gator trying to come back...........
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