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Cynic
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Well I killed my first gator. It was a rainy night in South Louisiana and I never saw him on that black asphalt. But when my left front hit him I knew it. Must be a SOB to hit a big one.



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Posts: 13014 | Location: Pride, Louisiana | Registered: August 14, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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You have a great opening line for your new book. “It was a dark and stormy night when I whacked Boudreaux the snack sized gator...”
The New York Times is waiting to put your book on their best seller list, but you have to write it first. Smile
 
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Why did the gator cross the road?



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^ ^ ^ ^ It's too late to ask him now.



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Well, you've got me beat. I killed a pack rat walking across my driveway yesterday. He was a big-assed rat, but not even close to your trophy.


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Why did the gator cross the road?


Well we figured he was after frogs. It was a road close to Bayou Teche that ran through the sugar cane fields. There were a bunch of frogs in the road and we figured he was in the ditch and scared the frog onto the road and he went after them.


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Posts: 13014 | Location: Pride, Louisiana | Registered: August 14, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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What a coincidence, I had fried gator for an appetizer last night.

Charlie, are you getting it made into boots, belt, and a holster?



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What a coincidence, I had fried gator for an appetizer last night.

Charlie, are you getting it made into boots, belt, and a holster?


Nope I bet some Coonass picked it up about 10 min. after I hit it.


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Posts: 13014 | Location: Pride, Louisiana | Registered: August 14, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Here near the Bonnet Carré spillway there has been a huge uptick in gators getting hit especially on Airline Highway. A few weeks ago I was riding my motorcycle on River Road near Montz and as I came around a bend I saw what I initially thought was a LARGE lawn ornament by the side of the road. Then the lawn ornament made a swift move into my lane which got my full attention right quick. It wasn't as dramatic as it sounds as it was a good ten yards ahead of me with plenty of time and room to evade.

The point though is that hitting one with a car, even a small gator, can be bad... I don't even want to think of what could happen hitting one on my motorcycle.




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I see 2 or 3 fresh gator kills a week(Everglades). Mostly in the 3 ft range. I have never hit a live one though.
 
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Here near the Bonnet Carré spillway there has been a huge uptick in gators getting hit especially on Airline Highway. A few weeks ago I was riding my motorcycle on River Road near Montz and as I came around a bend I saw what I initially thought was a LARGE lawn ornament by the side of the road. Then the lawn ornament made a swift move into my lane which got my full attention right quick. It wasn't as dramatic as it sounds as it was a good ten yards ahead of me with plenty of time and room to evade.

The point though is that hitting one with a car, even a small gator, can be bad... I don't even want to think of what could happen hitting one on my motorcycle.


A couple weeks ago we were on I-10 on the part were it crosses Pontchartrain and there was a coon walking towards N.O. That's not healthy for a coon walking on that elevated part


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A couple weeks ago we were on I-10 on the part were it crosses Pontchartrain and there was a coon walking towards N.O. That's not healthy for a coon walking on that elevated part

Not healthy indeed. Every time they open the spillway we get a mass exodus of varied wildlife coming through our neighborhood.




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That's not healthy for a coon walking on that elevated part

Lord, please don't let a liberal read this. Roll Eyes

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Charlie, are you getting it made into boots, belt, and a holster?

Quickest way to get the family jewels in a huge vice is to be caught with a dead gator, out of season, and no tag.

Besides, you would not have enough belly skin to made a decent pair of boots and a belt and a holster. Maybe a belt and a sexy pair of bikini underwear for you and the wifey. Big Grin

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
What a coincidence, I had fried gator for an appetizer last night.

Charlie, are you getting it made into boots, belt, and a holster?


You could maybe make a sheath out of that gator.




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Just happen to run across this story today. Be glad 'your' gator was a bit smaller than this one.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/...ar-AADasdP?ocid=iehp

"A gator weighing over 450 pounds had to pulled from a highway in Tallahassee after being struck by a semi-truck." Eek


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