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Mish mash => Open Forum => Topic started by: Conrad on June 21, 2011, 01:05:38 PM
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http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/gator-gets-shot-while-guarding-home/question-1853997/ (http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/gator-gets-shot-while-guarding-home/question-1853997/)
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) - Police responding to a rare alligator sighting in suburban Kansas City took quick action to dispatch of the beast, shooting it in the head, as instructed, while it lurked menacingly in the weeds leading down to a pond.
It wasn't until a second rifle shot bounced off the reptile's head that the officers realized they had mortally wounded a concrete lawn ornament.
A resident of a subdivision near the pond called police Saturday evening to report that his children spotted the alligator while they were playing in some nearby woods.
After consulting a conservation agent, who told them to kill the gator if they felt it posed a danger, one of the officers shot it twice in the head before realizing something was up, said Tom Gentry, an Independence police spokesman.
"It didn't move," Gentry said. "They inched up closer and closer and discovered it was a mock-up of a real alligator made to look like it was real."
In the officers' defense, it was growing dark when they shot the fake gator and it was partially submerged in the weeds.
The property owner told police that the gator was meant to keep people off his property, Gentry said. Officers told him a no-trespassing sign would have been wiser.
"Now he'll have to patch up his alligator," Gentry said.
Conservation agent Derek Cole said the department has received calls in the past about alligators that had been set free in populated areas, so there was no reason to believe the Saturday sighting wasn't valid.
"The department doesn't get involved in something like that," Cole said. "They asked if they could go ahead and dispatch it if it was a danger, and I said there's a kill shot on alligators, a small kill shot on the head. I said if they can get a shot like that, go ahead."
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On private property? The city should pay all costs associated with repairs. Why wasnt the owner notified before attempting to dispatch this dangerous piece of concrete? And where did the bullets end up?
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This would be a GREAT trick to play on a neighbor you don't like. ;D
Just saying . . .
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I know gators will sit still for hours but I thought the eyes would reflect light. Overall the story is a bit funny, again where did the bullets go...
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Couldn't they just have lured the 'gator into a truck with bricks and released it in a quarry?
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:rotflmao:
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Couldn't they just have lured the 'gator into a truck with bricks and released it in a quarry?
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:rotflmao: :thumbs:
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Great guys, just great. Turn this tragedy into something funny, next thing you know Jim will post a picture of his Solstice evening at the nudist camp :o
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It was a see-ment alligator out by the see-ment pond!
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Great guys, just great. Turn this tragedy into something funny, next thing you know Jim will post a picture of his Solstice evening at the nudist camp :o
Oh Lord, I certainly hope not!!!!
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Great guys, just great. Turn this tragedy into something funny, next thing you know Jim will post a picture of his Solstice evening at the nudist camp :o
That's funny... :rotflmao: :thumbs:
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I don't know which Jim you are referring to but if it's me I've never been to a nudist camp. Actually there is one here in VA that I have 'heard' of but I've never been to it. Well, I've been by it but never stopped..... I wonder if Google Earth knows anything about it....
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I don't know which Jim you are referring to but if it's me I've never been to a nudist camp. Actually there is one here in VA that I have 'heard' of but I've never been to it. Well, I've been by it but never stopped..... I wonder if Google Earth knows anything about it....
Google pics of VA show some guy on a horse (cement) with a trailer full of metal clothing. 8) He had some kinda fancy glass half full of liquid and a jar of olives in his lap :yikes:
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This 'gator thing is great. And a few less motorcyclists got hassled by the man!
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I don't know which Jim you are referring to but if it's me I've never been to a nudist camp. Actually there is one here in VA that I have 'heard' of but I've never been to it. Well, I've been by it but never stopped..... I wonder if Google Earth knows anything about it....
I have always wanted to go to a nudist beach but i am always afraid that I will stick out :o ::) :P
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I have always wanted to go to a nudist beach but i am always afraid that I will stick out :o ::) :P
This is now my facebook status!!!!
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I don't know which Jim you are referring to but if it's me I've never been to a nudist camp. Actually there is one here in VA that I have 'heard' of but I've never been to it. Well, I've been by it but never stopped.....
"and if I stopped, I didn't stay very long..."
a slippery slope, gentlemen. A very slippery slope...
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Slippery indeed.... :rotflmao:
Actually this is what I like about this forum. We start off with concrete alligators being shot at by the the police and then morph to nudists camps.... It's all good.
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Slippery indeed.... :rotflmao:
Actually this is what I like about this forum. We start off with concrete alligators being shot at by the the police and then morph to nudists camps.... It's all good.
I agree!!!
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Anyone notice Jim didnt deny the jar of olives? ;)
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If I could only get them to come and put that blue demon horse with those devil red eyes to pasture out at DIA... LOL!!!
(http://warofillusions.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/horsesculpture.jpg?w=320&h=240)
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Slippery indeed.... :rotflmao:
Actually this is what I like about this forum. We start off with concrete alligators being shot at by the the police and then morph to nudists camps.... It's all good.
:thumbs:
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If I could only get them to come and put that blue demon horse with those devil red eyes to pasture out at DIA... LOL!!!
God, I hate that thing! Too bad the artists died or we might be able to convince him to take it down out of pity.
(http://warofillusions.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/horsesculpture.jpg?w=320&h=240)
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Hard to believe that police were called, dispatched, reconned, set up, planned it out, took not one but two rifle shots on private property without notifying the owner, nearby residents or even confirming the target before shots were fired and in the dark. I'm sorry, I call the BS flag. Way too incredible to be true.
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You can take down the BS flag now.
From the Independence Examiner:
http://www.examiner.net/archive/x724668074/Police-explain-actions-in-shooting-of-concrete-alligator (http://www.examiner.net/archive/x724668074/Police-explain-actions-in-shooting-of-concrete-alligator)
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Hard to believe that police were called, dispatched, reconned, set up, planned it out, took not one but two rifle shots on private property without notifying the owner, nearby residents or even confirming the target before shots were fired and in the dark. I'm sorry, I call the BS flag. Way too incredible to be true.
Now you don't really think that I would have posted such a story without first checking on multiple sources do you Boss?
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Slippery indeed.... :rotflmao:
Actually this is what I like about this forum. We start off with concrete alligators being shot at by the the police and then morph to nudists camps.... It's all good.
Kinda like sitting in the neighborhood tavern or around a camp fire. :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: :chugbeer: