Fire Truck Used To Pull 400 Pound Alligator From Florida Creek

[matcom]

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MIAMI -- A 12-foot alligator weighing more than 400 pounds and described as among the largest ever caught near downtown Miami was hoisted from a creek Monday by a firetruck.

The alligator was discovered in Wagner Creek, about 16 miles from the Everglades, in the shadows of two major hospital complexes and around the corner from the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, a court house, a county jail and government office buildings.

It was "about the last place you'd expect to see an alligator of any size," said licensed trapper Todd Hardwick. Alligators are much more common in suburban canals and lakes.

Hardwick and others wrapped a rope around the middle of the gator and attached the other end to a ladder fire truck, which hoisted the reptile out of the water, over a 4-foot fence and a row of parked cars.

Then Hardwick and two wildlife officers sat on the gator while an assistant secured its jaws shut with duct tape. "He used the entire roll," Hardwick said.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4045352/detail.html

[readmylips]

1. Creepy!...Hate Gators and Snakes...

I hate Florida.

[benburch]

2. I'd have used TWO rolls!!! nt

[lpbk2713]

3. Same old story.

Man invades wildlife's territory with his buildings and parking lots. Wildlife has to be killed.

[underpants]

4. Okay Miami you won the damned bowl game do you have to rub it in?

Geesh!