This gator was caught in a backyard outside of Houston, Texas. The Sheriff in the picture is 6'5" for scale. Gator was just over 23' long.

I wonder how many pairs of boots they're going to get out of ol' Godzilla there.

I wonder how many pairs of boots they will find in his stomach.

I'm a little skeptical of this photo? First off, who would rig a 2,000+ lb creature off of one tooth of a backhoe, the whole bucket would be wiser. Also, they appear to be putting a 23' gator in the back of a Ford F-350 dually with a 8' bed??? If it's real, that's one huge reptile!!!

Hey ! That's Wally Gator!

mmm gator tail

Seems that the photo is real, but the story isn't.

It's a 13'1" long aligator, and it happened last April.

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

Oops. It was two years ago. April 16, 2005.

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So there is no one that wants to hit it? lol!

no wonder they are national champs.

ok, 13' I agree. You can wrap his tail in the bed. Even the pic with the deer in it's mouth makes more sense now.

Man thats a big horny toad...

That guy doesn't look 6'5".

when I was 2 or three yrs old my aunt lived in south Florida ( I dont recall exactly where), but her back yard was bordered by a lake (with gators) and people were constantly losing dogs and cat, they would even be taken out of fenced in yards. I guess a couple million years of evolution makes for an impressive beastie.

A few years back, a man was walking his dog in a subdivision on Rabbit Creek off Dog River in Mobile, AL, when a big gator grabbed his dog and drug the man into the water before he got the leash off his hand. It was a big deal at the time because the gators were protected by the feds and the residents were told to leave that gator alone. The dead gator was found on the steps of the federal building in Mobile a few days later.

Forget the alligators. One of the worst pests in such climes are the huge tree cockroaches. Not to forget fire ants, poisonous snakes, african bees, and lots and lots of daytime biters (asian tigers)........ mosquitoes.

YIKES !

The teeth on the top and bottom don't match. Obvious shopped.

WTF, looks real to me.

looks like they got all the supply of gator skin they will need for all the boots at next yrs rodeo