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Teh One Who Knocks
08-27-2018, 10:08 AM
The Associated Press


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An airline pilot and two friends captured an alligator nearly 12-feet (3.6-meters) long on Florida's Lake Okeechobee.

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Jim Howard of Cooper City tells WPLG he spotted the gator just before sunset on Aug. 16. He lured the gator with bait and used a multi-pronged grappling hook to pull it close. A friend and his son soon joined him on the boat and pulled the alligator in close before using a bang stick to shoot it in the skull.

He says it took an hour and a half to haul in the 1,000-pound gator.

https://i.imgur.com/nemXglf.png (https://www.facebook.com/lisa.h.dutschke/posts/10102919682445022)

Cooper had a permit from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which has allowed alligator hunting since 1988.

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He plans to have purses and wallets made from the skin and keep the skull.

Goofy
08-27-2018, 05:01 PM
:shock:

deebakes
08-28-2018, 01:31 AM
:nom: