This picture was taken by a Life Flight helicopter flying over Lake Istapoka, in Sebring, Florida.
That has to be a HUGE gator to have a whole deer it its mouth!!!!
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, understat ed. 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...
Dan