Don,t swamp your boat out here!!

[Gulfdiver]

This picture was taken by a Lifeflight helicopter flying over Lake Istapoka ,
(For those of you who are not local, Lake Istapoka is near Sebring, Fl.)
That has to be a HUGE gator to have a whole deer in its mouth!
Are you ready to go fishing on Lake Istapoka ?!
If you ski -- try not to fall.



Date: Mon, 1 Aug, 2006 06:14:24 -0500

The alligator was found between Lake

Istapoka and Pinedale estates... near a house ,

Game Wardens were forced to shoot the

alligator- guess he wouldn't cooperate.

Jayne and Don Hobkirk could hear

the bellowing in the night.

Their neighbors had been telling them

that they had seen a mammoth alligator

in the Lake that runs behind their house,

but they dismissed the stories as being exaggerations.

"I didn't believe it," Don Hobkirk said.

Friday they realized the stories were,

if anything, understated.

Florida Game and Parks game wardens

had to shoot the beast...

Joe Goff, 6' 5" tall, a game warden with the Florida Game and Parks Commission, walks past the 23-foot, one inch alligator that he shot and killed in the back yard of Jayne & Don Hobkirk

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[airboat4fun]

23-foot, one inch alligator

C'mon now, you know that ain't right

 

[Rich Andrews]

no picture......??

 

[Gulfdiver]

I can not figure out how to up load the pics on the page. I have them on the email and cannot get them on the page. Please help!!

 

[hmgm123]

click on to pictures & wallpapers on the top of the page, Then click upload photos, then hit browse box and go to your folder where your pics are and hit upload.

 

[gator]

Old news. The photo really came from a news helo flying over a lake in Lousiana a couple of years ago. http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r56/mrgator/gatordeer.jpg

 

[gator]

This also is old . http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r56/mrgator/BigGator.jpg


Sorry. 8)


Look up Photobucket and sign up. It's FREE. Upload your pics there and then y'all can transfer them to here or where ever. If i can do it, anybody can do it. It was really easy. Have fun.

 

[Gulfdiver]

Sorry I had rec. that in an e-mail file with the pics and they are the exact same pics. as you have there so I give up ,because I still cannot put the photos on the page. I guess ill have to continue to work on that. Thanks Guys....

 

[loco pato]

Joe is a Texas warden and the pictures are of two different Gators.. Calm Seas...

 

[Airboatcapt2]

I just figured it was a Florida Deer so the Gator couldn't be very big. LOL





I have seen this story float around several times. I still think it's cool. I have seen Gators carry the same trophy in their mouth for weeks waiting for it to get soft enough to eat.

 

[Sniper]

one of you gator hunters need to get out there and get him before he eats a Yankee

 

[airboat4fun]

if he's got a taste for yankees, maybe we could wait a little bit.

 

[Sniper]

yea like a life time and maybe he will pass it on to other Gators

 

[airboat4fun]

speaking of "passing gators",
What happened to rex grossman last sunday?

 

[Gulfdiver]

looked like he had a Florida uniform on all over again! Just the wrong color.

 

[BoHawg]

This gator eats Yankees? Maybe we can transplant him to downtown Orlando.

 

[bondsman]

just imagine the horable constopation that gator would suffer. :lol:

 

[goldhunter_2]

a trained gator that eats yankees .................how did you think he got that big anyway :lol: :lol:

 

[UncleBubba]

I lived on that lake bout a year and half ago. I would see the yankees go out in a canoe get 4or 500 ft from the ramp do a 360 come back after seenin 10 or 12 footer hangin out.

When I was lookin at houses on Istapoka I looked at this one there was one about 8ft long on the walk way in the back yard.

 

[FrogNutz]

I would see the yankees go out in a canoe get 4or 500 ft from the ramp do a 360 come back

They'd get back a lot quicker if they did a 180 instead!
This is proof that yankees are not that bright.