WOOHOO...gator hater thread

Boots on the hoof.

This will only encourage more violence against other gators.

I'll bet subby also knows Unix.

i never thought that craphole town where i was born would ever make the news.

now that it has, i'm glad it involved an alligator.

Trying to kill a gator with fishing arrows and frog spears sounds a little um..........not smart.

Hell, most people that shoot gators fail to kill them. The kids did better than most stories involving gators and cops.

DerekSD

Did you guys have "frog spears" when you were kids?

RiverKing: DerekSD

Did you guys have "frog spears" when you were kids?

my uncles did.
fortunately, my mother was smart enough to move us to california when i was 2.

I would let a 14 year old child run around with a 12 gauge, what could possibly go wrong?

RiverKing: DerekSD

Did you guys have "frog spears" when you were kids?

we did, but we used an awful racial slur instead of "frog spear"

an no it was not "jig gig" or "spook stick"


//here comes the PETA butthurt in 3....2....1...

golden goat: I would let a 14 year old child run around with a 12 gauge, what could possibly go wrong?

Gator kabobs?

turtleking:

//here comes the PETA butthurt in 3....2....1...

People on the local media comment sites are getting all weepy over this gator.

Look, folks, an alligator can't survive the winter. It was headed for a death after suffering come fall.

Who knows how many gamefish and waterfowl it would have destroyed in the meantime? And let's not talk about the danger to children and pets.

I see nothing wrong with a 17 year-old having access to a 12-gauge. These boys obviously knew what they were doing. (By the way, deer hunting in Indiana is limited to shotguns with deer slugs; no rifles. So that's probably how they took it out, not with shot shells)

golden goat: I would let a 14 year old child run around with a 12 gauge, what could possibly go wrong?

Depending on the kid, probably nothing.

Yes, teens go hunting all the time, and the 12 gauge is a popular small game gun.

Besides which, he wasn't just walking around with it, he had to go back and get it because the spears and archery equipment they had weren't good enough.

This is well north of Indianapolis, probably less than 90 miles from Chicago.

Did you guys have gators there when you were kids?

\11 yr old son is camping near there all this week so I am getting a kick...
\\wait what?

FTFA: Alligators are not a game species in Indiana, so shooting it broke no laws.

Anybody know if fundies are a game species in Indiana? Vegans? PETArds? Republicans?

No reason, just curious.

CrankMyBlueSax: FTFA: Alligators are not a game species in Indiana, so shooting it broke no laws.

Anybody know if fundies are a game species in Indiana? Vegans? PETArds? Republicans?

No reason, just curious.

How about humans in general? I tend to want to shoot most, regardless of their petty political alignments.

golden goat: I would let a 14 year old child run around with a 12 gauge, what could possibly go wrong?

Bah, not that big a deal. I got my first .22 bolt action Remington with scope at 6 years of age, first 410 at 8 and a 12 gauge by 10 years old. Went out in the woods with them all the time on my own, never a problem. Dad made sure I learned how to properly handle a rifle, and not to jack ass around with it.

This has to be one of the most northernmost wild gator sightings/killings I've seen. Global warming evidence? This is just a jump away from Lake Michigan.

Imagine the Great Lakes infested with alligators! Where is your God now!

Ah Rensseltucky...

CrankMyBlueSax: FTFA: Alligators are not a game species in Indiana, so shooting it broke no laws.

Anybody know if fundies are a game species in Indiana? Vegans? PETArds? Republicans?

No reason, just curious.

Considering most of the state is historically Republican I'd imagine you can take a few PETArds and Vegans. Just make sure to stay under the bag limit.

(By the way, deer hunting in Indiana is limited to shotguns with deer slugs; no rifles. So that's probably how they took it out, not with shot shells)

Actually, now you can use pistol caliber (straight wall cases) rifles for deer up there

I_C_Weener: Gator kabobs?


Yum. I've had deep-fried alligator before, and it was delicious.

/Then again, you could deep-fry my shoes, and I'm sure they would taste okay.

Methinks that all the creatures that don't believe in global warming should read this article and prepare for gators in their hometown waters.

aearra: Methinks that all the creatures that don't believe in global warming should read this article and prepare for gators in their hometown waters.

No, this isn't all that uncommon. These are pets that are released because it becomes inconvenient to keep them. Winter kills them, and if they happened to encounter a gator of the opposite sex, it would kill their offspring as well. Their lifestyle doesn't mesh well with frozen over lakes and rivers.

6 feet is a little uncommon, but every year a handful of smaller ones are found in Indiana.

aearra: Methinks that all the creatures that don't believe in global warming should read this article and prepare for gators in their hometown waters.

What is everyone worried about, it's just a little baby alligator.

/Doesn't understand the scary tag
//Lives in southern Louisiana
///Will be upset if it is not eaten...

There's tons of alligators where I live, and honestly, they're just about no danger to anyone except for small dogs, cats, and maybe unattended children. I lived in a place on the banks of a small lake that was full of alligators. Sometimes they'd wander into the parking lot, but otherwise they just left well enough alone.
I do remember a bunch of stupid kids throwing rocks at a 12 footer one time. You'd better believe that I was beseeching Darwin to give them a little object lesson. No such luck, though. The gator pretty much ignored them.

Magnir: golden goat: I would let a 14 year old child run around with a 12 gauge, what could possibly go wrong?

Bah, not that big a deal. I got my first .22 bolt action Remington with scope at 6 years of age, first 410 at 8 and a 12 gauge by 10 years old. Went out in the woods with them all the time on my own, never a problem. Dad made sure I learned how to properly handle a rifle, and not to jack ass around with it.

Hope he taught you to handle a shotgun too.

Heh, I just had an argument about whether or not cottonmouth water moccasins are present in Northern Indiana lakes. Finally convinced him that they're extremely rare even in southern Indiana, and there aren't any up north.

Now there are 6-gators up there? Here we go again.

/getting a kick and all that

So I guess a phone call to the local Sheriff or Animal Control officer was out of the question. Too bad it had to die.

/not a Peta-tard
//pro-gun, pro-hunter
///just hates to see a wasteful killing

"You're all c*cks*ck*rs! I knew it before but didn't want to say anything."

/I'll say it: I LOVED Lake Placid.

Global Warming FTW!!

/and dumbass "pet" owner for the lose

: IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!!

//Appears to be a bit too far north.

Frowns upon the killings of large reptiles

golden goat: I would let a 14 year old child run around with a 12 gauge, what could possibly go wrong?

Depends on whether you teach him the proper way to handle firearms or just unlock the cabinet and say have at it.

/started hunting at 10
//by myself at 12
///used my dads double barrel 12 guage

apiarist: aearra: Methinks that all the creatures that don't believe in global warming should read this article and prepare for gators in their hometown waters.

No, this isn't all that uncommon. These are pets that are released because it becomes inconvenient to keep them. Winter kills them, and if they happened to encounter a gator of the opposite sex, it would kill their offspring as well. Their lifestyle doesn't mesh well with frozen over lakes and rivers.

6 feet is a little uncommon, but every year a handful of smaller ones are found in Indiana.

At least they tell us they're escaped pets. And that 'gators can't survive an Indiana winter. They tell us that.

They used to tell us that opossums couldn't survive a Wisconsin winter. The place is crawling with them now.

But let's assume it's an escaped pet. Anyone know anybody in Indiana keeping six-foot alligators as pets? Anybody missing one?

Boy, I'm glad I moved out of there.

The gators I could handle. The 16-year-olds with shotguns shooting up the river, not so much.

He's got nothin' on Amos Moses (new window).

Cowkitchen2: Heh, I just had an argument about whether or not cottonmouth water moccasins are present in Northern Indiana lakes. Finally convinced him that they're extremely rare even in southern Indiana, and there aren't any up north.

A quick sweep of some university biology department sites shows that cottonmouths have been collected in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

I'm sure they were just escaped pets though.

Lorelle: He's got nothin' on Amos Moses (new window).

Sonnnnnnnnnnnn.

golden goat: I would let a 14 year old child run around with a 12 gauge, what could possibly go wrong?

Well, it depends on the child. My cousins all around the same age grew up knowing how to shoot all sorts of guns, and they regularly hunted. They also grew up in the rural midwest, where guns and hunting is part of the culture. I grew up in the 'burbs where whenever anyone thinks of guns, they think of scary gangbangers and criminals. Coming from the suburbs, my mom never let any of us touch a gun until we were at least 16, and it was of course under strict supervision. So yeah, me at 14..probably not a good idea. My cousins at 14, not that big of a deal.

golden goat: I would let a 14 year old child run around with a 12 gauge, what could possibly go wrong?

Very little if he's been properly instructed in firearms safety. By the time I was 14, I was hunting quail solo most every day after school.

/No 12-gauge though, I used a Browning 20. Any bum can hit birds with a 12....

golden goat: I would let a 14 year old child run around with a 12 gauge, what could possibly go wrong?

Hell, when I was fourteen I always had a twelve gauge in the back seat of my pickup.

Farm life FTW.

JustGetItRight: golden goat: I would let a 14 year old child run around with a 12 gauge, what could possibly go wrong?

Very little if he's been properly instructed in firearms safety. By the time I was 14, I was hunting quail solo most every day after school.

/No 12-gauge though, I used a Browning 20. Any bum can hit birds with a 12....

My favorite gun is my Browning 20 featherweight. My first time out, I flushed a quail that circled back over me. Being new, I fired early. Range about 20 feet. The dog just looked at me as if to say, "Which piece do you want me to go after, Chief?"

Can't imagine what a 12 gauge would do to a quail.

What two Hoosier teens with a recently dead six footish gator might look like.
Did you ever know any 14 year olds with beards?

damn the local place that sells deep fried alligator is closed now. why couldn't i have read this thread earlier?????

James T. Smirk: What two Hoosier teens with a recently dead six footish gator might look like.
Did you ever know any 14 year olds with beards?

Don't make fun, they're the biggest guys in the 4th grade.

This is easily the coolest thing that ever happened in my beloved home town.

James T. Smirk: What two Hoosier teens with a recently dead six footish gator might look like.
Did you ever know any 14 year olds with beards?

Ugh. Looks like those guys are a bit too far north too. They look exactly like the dominant species around here: Redneckus Mississippienus.

they missed a chance to have a top notch fighting dog