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HUGE FLORIDA GATOR! Yep, this monster is real. Caught on camera during Hurricane Eta (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2020 OP
Easily 10 foot. Definitely has "right-of-way." hlthe2b Nov 2020 #1
Wow, what a monster! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 2020 #2
Gators are badasses ... esp huge ones ... mr_lebowski Nov 2020 #3
And stay inside. MontanaMama Nov 2020 #4
Shit I'd probably go hide in the car in the garage it says it's real I have no reason to doubt (nt) mr_lebowski Nov 2020 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Nov 2020 #6
I'd prefer he relocate to Palm Beach jmowreader Nov 2020 #7
There are alligators in the water hazards in some FL golf courses. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2020 #8
Is Betty White gonna feed it a cow? roamer65 Nov 2020 #9
You can't really make this up...Can You?...Florida?...Yes, I've seen em in Florida.. Stuart G Nov 2020 #10
I always find it amazing Piasladic Nov 2020 #11
That's Godzilla LeftInTX Nov 2020 #12
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
3. Gators are badasses ... esp huge ones ...
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 05:28 PM
Nov 2020

Imagine looking out your front window and seeing that ... man I would shit ...

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
5. Shit I'd probably go hide in the car in the garage it says it's real I have no reason to doubt (nt)
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 06:14 PM
Nov 2020

Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

jmowreader

(50,543 posts)
7. I'd prefer he relocate to Palm Beach
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 07:09 PM
Nov 2020

You realize the election bullshit would be over if this behemoth just ate Trump, correct?

I wouldn't worry about the gator's indigestion if he did; they're used to eating rotten meat.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,656 posts)
8. There are alligators in the water hazards in some FL golf courses.
Thu Nov 12, 2020, 08:07 PM
Nov 2020

Wherever His Lardship golfs in the winter should be where that big fellow is relocated to.

Stuart G

(38,414 posts)
10. You can't really make this up...Can You?...Florida?...Yes, I've seen em in Florida..
Fri Nov 13, 2020, 11:25 PM
Nov 2020

Some friends of mine own a house in Florida...The house is located on a small lake..On the other side of lake, really a very large retention pond, is a gater..Now...Mr. Gater..does stay on the other side of the lake, and enough birds
land in the lake so he doesn't need to come to our side where the house is located...but he is there..about 150 yards
away from the home, (maybe 200yards)..and he stays there...He is rather frightening...but he stays there...

Gaters are all over Florida...It's tropical down there in far south Florida..Gaters like that kind of weather..

...........Don't they?....Bears like the woods, and Gaters like the jungle and tropical conditions

.........................................Is that right?

Piasladic

(1,160 posts)
11. I always find it amazing
Fri Nov 13, 2020, 11:30 PM
Nov 2020

How can they heft that much weight up on those little legs and even make it up fences?

I had one (over 10 ft) in my yard about 4 years ago. The place is completely fenced in with fencing that is taller than I am. I called animal control and was saddened because that apparently means they contract with locals who shoot it and sell its body parts. I told them it was at least eight feet, and the man came, saw it, and almost peed himself. Then he shot it.

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