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Marc Jacobs

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Now I believe it!



SAFETY TOPIC FOR WEEKENDS

This picture was  taken by a KTBS helicopter flying over Lake Conroe

(For those of you  who are not local, Lake Conroe is in Conroe, TX -
just north of Houston &  south of Tyler)

That has to be a  HUGE gator! There's a whole deer in its mouth!
Are you ready to go  skiing on Lake Conroe?!

If you ski at the west end of the lake -- try not to fall!

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...

Anita and Charlie Rogers could hear the bellowing in the night.
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.


Sorry for the large pics yall.


gatordeer1.jpg


gatordeer2.jpg


gatordeer3.jpg



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OMG.  I am now officially terrified of the lake for fear of alligators and my car for fear of snakes.  All these crazy animals!

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OMG!!! Wow. That thing is toting a deer! I feel kind of bad for the gator. And the deer. And the people who were frightened by the gator. I wish we could all just get along and not eat each other.

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wow that is scary.

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sage wrote:

OMG!!! Wow. That thing is toting a deer! I feel kind of bad for the gator. And the deer. And the people who were frightened by the gator. I wish we could all just get along and not eat each other.
LMAO. I had the same exact thought.

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wow. just wow.

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that thing's like a dinosaur!!!

(and yes I'm crazy- the little snake gives me a full blown anxiety attack, but I think this thing is cool! )

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Good lord, that thing's huge!!!!

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I forwarded this to some people in my office (which are engineers and huge nerds) and they have been researching about how and why it is fake.  Here are the responses:


1st response:


This is bogus. The first two pictures are in fact the same alligator......however, the third picture is not the same animal, furthermore, the first two pictures were taken by a helicopter news team, but the ACTUAL lake was Lake George, near Ocala, FL...........sorry to ruin the heroic story.....Deer in Texas are a lot bigger then the one in the first two pictures anyways......that deer is probably the average 6 ft long , look at the first picture, are you going to tell me that deer is 23 ft. long?? heck no......that would be almost 4 times the deers length.......you and I both know that is not true, either way......that airbrushed 3rd picture is really good......the head is made to look MAMMOTH!


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I am going to have to agree with Caleb on this one. If you look at the size of the deer vs the gator in picture 2, you can see that the length of the deer is, from head to toe, greater than 75% of the length of the gator. Those of use that have hunted and actually killed, dressed, and drug a deer out of the woods know that a deer is 6-8 feet long. From those measurements, the maximum length of this gator would be 7.5-10 feet long. I will buy that a gator killed a deer and that the pics 1 and 2 are real...but that third pic is fishy to me too. I checked the Guinness book of World Records online, the largest Crocodilian in the world is the Saltwater Crocodile found in India. The largest of those crocs are 7 meters (23 feet in length), and we all know that alligators are much smaller than crocodiles, with the average male only getting to a length of 11.2 feet long (from the national zoo website). I guess that you cannot believe everything that comes over the internet.


 


There were a few other responses, but they are really detailed and make me think we must have nothing to do at work today.  My only thought was about the angles on the last picture.  The guy is lined up with the truck and then the dozer is angled towards the camera.  Since the alligator is so much closer to the camera it makes it look that much larger.

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Okay that is very creepy--and what this about snakes in cars??  I must know b/c I am super paranoid about snakes, or anything serpent related.

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alb-


See Sibeski's post:


http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=44784&p=3&topicID=7495553&subForumID=102179&topicPage=



-- Edited by HeatherLynn at 16:22, 2006-06-29

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HeatherLynn wrote:
alb-
See Sibeski's post:
http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=44784&p=3&topicID=7495553&subForumID=102179&topicPage=-- Edited by HeatherLynn at 16:22, 2006-06-29


actually, if you're super paranoid you might not want to.

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Thank god Heatherlynn.  I was about to swear off any water in Texas with something like that floating around.  Usually bf and I watch the news but lately we've been to busy so we figured we had missed this story.  So no water in Florida for me...

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Aurora wrote:

Thank god Heatherlynn.  I was about to swear off any water in Texas with something like that floating around.  Usually bf and I watch the news but lately we've been to busy so we figured we had missed this story.  So no water in Florida for me...
I know!  I was in Texas last weekend at the lake and I was freaking out.  I am so gullible. 

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Check this out:  http://www.thefacts.com/story.lasso?ewcd=86dd3c1ea51fe00d 


It seems as if this same gator (the one hanging) was found in West Columbia, TX in Brazoria county, much farther south that Conroe. That area is known for gators and most people that I know who live around there go to the parks where gators are known for being at. To me that is a little crazy as I wouldn't want to run into a 13 foot gator, but some people have more nerve!!



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