Lake Conroe, Texas: Family Frolicking....Not Such A Good Idea?
MadMikesAmerica again has a link my local readers, must go to. It will scare the poo out of Lake Conroe lovers. Uh, I'm rethinking that retirement lake house. (I hadn't thought about it much, but Mike says that Texas have teeny brains......so.... that...figures. Right?)
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FYI
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/gatordeer.asp
In August 2004, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) finally cleared up the issue by issuing a press release identifying the photographs as having been taken in south Georgia (near the Georgia/South Carolina border) by a USFWS officer in March 2004:
The sight of a 12 to 14 foot-long alligator is something south Georgia folks see occasionally, but few have seen one take an adult deer out to lunch. Actually — for lunch.
The photographs of this deer-eating alligator were taken from the air by Terri Jenkins, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service District Fire Management Officer. She was preparing to ignite a prescribed fire at Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge, about 40 miles south of Savannah, Georgia, on March 4, 2004.
"One advantage of fire work is you get to see that 12-14 footers are common from Santee National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina to Coastal South Carolina to Georgia’s coast," said Jenkins. "It looks like the alligator population is doing extremely well."
This one was at least 12-13 feet long. Jenkins said that some bull alligators have a 35 inch girth.
A hoax. Imagine that. Sorry folks. The picture is still cool.
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