The alligators have to go.

[Valigator]

skeet you hit on a very real aspect of illegals, now you know my area of research is on "sex offender" but this applies to any illegal who commits crimes in the United States, if they happen to get caught and happen to go thru the system, there is absolutely no motivating factor for them to comply with the terms and conditions of their release. In fact there happens to be a big hoopla about the "restrictions" placed on those convicted of sex crimes...the 1000ft rule, not living next to parks, playgrounds etc...the big argument is that with these restrictions, it will force these guys underground and not comply at all, well I got news for you, if you check the numbers, the over-riding segment of the population of sex offenders, NOT Complying are illegals or foriegn nationals....they have no....compulsion to comply, but that is just one segment of the criminal element, add up those who have been convicted of an assortment of crimes and you got alot of bad guys, flying under the radar...

[Valigator]

The dumbest thing I have read in a while, drain the stupid lake, for Gods sake, throw a pig's lung on a hook for a day, that will bring him up...drain the lake??????

Gator may be lurking in Mesa lake












MESA, Ariz. Residents of a Mesa apartment complex think they know why ducks are disappearing from their lake.

A gator is on the loose.

Residents say the gator has been living in three-foot-deep water for close to a week. Because it's hot, the gator is likely hanging out at the bottom of the lake.

Game and Fish and volunteers from the Phoenix Herpetological Society walked around the lake perimeter and used binoculars to locate the intruder, but had no luck.

They decided to begin draining the lake into a nearby canal and planned to catch the alligator early tomorrow once the water goes down.

[Valigator]

A man in South Carolina jumped on the back of a 10-foot alligator to save his girlfriend's pet dog as it was being dragged into a lake, according to a Local 6 News report.



"If this were my dog, the guy would be my hero"



Brent Carey said he was at a park in Charleston with his girlfriend and her dog, Chance, when an alligator jumped out of the water and started to drag Chance into the lake.

Carey jumped on the alligator, grabbed it near the back legs and began to fight to free the dog.

"I could almost grab him and I thought I'm going to die right now, and Chance is probably already dead," Carey said.::

[fabsroman]

Those are about two moronic stories. If the gator is in 3 feet of water, couldn't they just fly a plane over and take a looksee. Any pilot guys want to chime in on this one. Is it possible to see a gator from the air if it is in 3 feet of water?

What I want to know is if they found a gator after draining the lake/pond. I have another idea why ducks might be missing. Uh, foxes. Uh, how about they flew away. If these were cows that were missing, I might be a little more worried.

[Valigator]

depends on the lake, in some of the more murky waters no, you can't see him. One of the reasons they have been around for millions of years is the coloring of gators....I'll give you one example...we have whats called a river of grass in the everglades, some of that stuff is just nasty...its a mixure of muck, grass, and down here hydrilla...I have literally had a gator tethered to the boat and after he had rolled in that stuff, you cant make out his head from his tail....now its another ball game in the gulf, we had a small plane in the keys flew from Marathon to Miami a few days a week and you could see every shark and every ray in the water..thats when I quit water-sking in the gulf, especially in what we consider winter months down here....

[fabsroman]

Okay, the video footage of sharks is what I am familiar with, and thought it might be the same with gators, but now I see that it isn't. The more I think about it, the more it makes sense because they are ambush predators.