This alligator was found between Athens and Palestine, Texas near a house.
How would you like to meet this fella in the dark? Never let it be said
that we don't grow them big in Texas.
Game wardens were forced to shoot the alligator- guess he wouldn't
cooperate....
Their neighbors had been telling them that they had seen a mammoth
alligator in the waterway that runs behind their house, but they dismissed
the stories as exaggerations. "I didn't believe it ", Charles Rogers said.
Friday they realized the stories were, if anything, understated. Texas
Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast.
Joe Goff, 6'5" tall, a game warden with the Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department, walks past a 23-foot, 1-inch alligator that he shot and killed
in their back yard.