Denton gator

[busykngt]

Yet another gator spotted over by I-35 in Denton. (Thankfully Florida Man wasn’t around to give him a lift).

https://archive.ph/nc583

 

[Txhillbilly]

No big news there. Gator's have been in the waters of North Texas for a very long time.

 

[candcallen]

Lake Lewisville has several populations supposedly, although I dont know where. I'll bet the green belt trail that's been closed for 5 years north of 380 would have some, along with a purported bigfoot who frequents the area between the lakes.

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

They should be re-located to the Rio Grande..

 

[Chips n Salsa]

This topic came up on our Neighbor Next Door this weekend. Someone posted this map I thought was kinda cool-

 

[Coiled]

Yet another gator spotted over by I-35 in Denton. (Thankfully Florida Man wasn’t around to give him a lift).

https://archive.ph/nc583

That is a pretty good size lizard in the 1st pic, I would let the pros handle 'em.

 

[busykngt]

Dawned on me, maybe some folks didn’t follow my ‘Florida Man’ comment. It was my first “introduction” to the ‘Florida Man’ jargon/concept from several years back.

I read a News report of a Florida State Trooper pulling a guy over for speeding on one of their Interstate highways. Of course, with ‘Florida Man’ ya never know if you’re dealing with a truly crazy person or just a guy drugged out of his mind (or maybe both). Cop looks in this guy’s back seat and sees a six foot long LIVE alligator. Of course he pulls the guy out of his car and proceeds to secure the situation. During the course of handling the situation, cop asks Florida Man WHY he has a six foot long live alligator in his backseat? Florida Man says he picked up the gator hitchhiking and the gator had told him, he needed a lift to some lake just up the road! True story - according to the news report. And that was my first introduction to the idea behind ‘Florida Man’.

 

[Coiled]

busy, you don't have a gator in your back seat?

Aww, McKinney . . .

 

[jrbfishn]

We have them in the Lampasas River south of Killeen and in Stillhouse lake. Used to have a 12 footer.

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[equin]

Dawned on me, maybe some folks didn’t follow my ‘Florida Man’ comment. It was my first “introduction” to the ‘Florida Man’ jargon/concept from several years back.

I read a News report of a Florida State Trooper pulling a guy over for speeding on one of their Interstate highways. Of course, with ‘Florida Man’ ya never know if you’re dealing with a truly crazy person or just a guy drugged out of his mind (or maybe both). Cop looks in this guy’s back seat and sees a six foot long LIVE alligator. Of course he pulls the guy out of his car and proceeds to secure the situation. During the course of handling the situation, cop asks Florida Man WHY he has a six foot long live alligator in his backseat? Florida Man says he picked up the gator hitchhiking and the gator had told him, he needed a lift to some lake just up the road! True story - according to the news report. And that was my first introduction to the idea behind ‘Florida Man’.

As a former resident of Florida, I can believe it!

 

[busykngt]

Permanent gator population numbers in Tarrant & Denton Counties. Lake Worth, Lake Lewisville and Trinity River bottoms of Eagle Mountain Lake are specifically mentioned in the video below. A rather healthy looking (OR she’s pregnant) ten footer is shown. Personally, I ain’t gettin close enough to inquire!

CBS Texas - Breaking Local News, First Alert Weather & I-Team Investigations

Latest breaking news from CBS11 KTVT-TV | KTXA-TV.

dfw.cbslocal.com

 

[contender buff]

I’ve personally seen them at lake worth and eagle mountain lakes !

 

[busykngt]

“the gators got your granny. Chomp chomp.”

 

[Royalecheese]

I love watching Lone Star Law on Animal Planet. The show follows several game wardens around the state, and it must be close to every other episode will have one of the wardens wrestling a gator out of a bayou, drainage ditch, or stock pond.

I’m not a fan of “reality tv” but the show has taught me more about the different regions and animals of Texas than I ever learned in school.

 

[Aus_Schwaben]

They should be re-located to the Rio Grande..

Great, then there will be two more startup businesses to encourage the illegals to come here - Restaurants specializing in alligator ("Loco Alligator") and alligator skin products.

 

[CharlieWH2O]

This was up in OK last winter. I have no doubt it happened all over TX as well.

How Oklahoma's alligators snorkel in ice to survive cold snap: The gators ‘are aware of things’

By now, you've undoubtedly seen the photos of the alligators sticking their snouts out of the frozen Red Slough Wildlife Management Area in McCurtain County in the far corner of southeastern Oklahoma…

www.oklahoman.com

 

[ZX9RCAM]

This was up in OK last winter. I have no doubt it happened all over TX as well.

How Oklahoma's alligators snorkel in ice to survive cold snap: The gators ‘are aware of things’

By now, you've undoubtedly seen the photos of the alligators sticking their snouts out of the frozen Red Slough Wildlife Management Area in McCurtain County in the far corner of southeastern Oklahoma…

www.oklahoman.com

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[WarBaby]

I’ve personally seen them at lake worth and eagle mountain lakes !

Yes, they are there and I have experienced the same.

 

[fla2tex]

How many gators are there in any given lake? I’m from central Florida and there can be dozens in an average sized lake. As a teenager we would go out on the lake at night and shine a spotlight across the lake and see the reflection of their eyes and in some lakes they were literally everywhere.

I had no idea they were here until I saw this thread.

 

[fla2tex]

…and before someone asks, I don’t have any “Florida man” stories about gators. I have no idea why it seems like Florida has the dumbest hicks in the country.