Woman cited for shooting Aligator in house

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TRying to find an article on it. BUt just heard on Foxnews that a woman found an alligator climbing into her house through her doggie door. She shot it and killed it and was fined for hunting without a license.

I misspoke above. I thought they said she killed it and she was given a warning citation not a fine.

http://www.wftv.com/news/9226478/detail.html
 
She didn't kill it.
Article I saw said "she loaded a 10 round magazine" Never stated what calibre. Also the article said she was issued a "Warning" not a citation. So no fines.
I'll try to find the article.

AFS
 
This is the kind of idiocy....

....that leads to so much cop bashing. Any LEO who is so profoundly stupid as to level this sort of charge needs to spend the rest of his life sitting in a cage being fed bannanas because he is too stupid to interact with the people he needs to interact with to get through life without being a danger to himself and others.

I heard of another Florida case where an alligator attacked a woman jogger. Some guy got a rope around the alligator and dragged him off. He was arrested for "possessing" a wild animal. What abject stupidity. If I were a LEO and a fellow officer did anything so stupid, I believe I would render the GD fool "safe."

In this area one morning a few years ago a guy hit a bear with his car. The bear had a broken back and was screaming in pain and ripped a chunk out of a car. Somebody shot it to put it out of its misery and to render it safe. The shooter was arrested for shooting a bear out of season. Fortunately, the arresting LEO was laughed out of court by the judge and then laughed out of the territory by saner lawmen.

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BRADENTON, Fla. -- The alligator was only 3 feet long, but Candy Frey wasn't taking any chances.

When the reptile came into the lanai of her home east of Bradenton Saturday and attacked her golden retriever, Frey went and got her gun.

After Frey and her daughter managed to push the gator out of the lanai through the dog door, she blasted away at it four times.

"I was running on so much adrenaline," the 48-year-old former U.S. Marine aviation technician told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. "I just freaked out and shot him -- boom, boom, boom, boom."

A neighbor called deputies and the state sent a wildlife officer to investigate.

The alligator barely bled from gunshots to the neck and shoulder, Frey said, and wildlife officer put it back in the lake.

The deputy gave Frey a warning citation for hunting without a license.

Alligators have been blamed for three fatal attacks in the span of a week in other parts of Florida.
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I suppose you could argue that since they were able to get it outside through a pet door that it wasn't too much of a threat and shooting it was unnecessary. But hunting?!?! How could it in anyway be seen as hunting?

Also anyone know if this could haunt her as far as he gun permits being affected?

You're right no mention of caliber. Couldn't be too big as 4 rounds and it wasn't even hurt badly enough to need to see a vet.
 
ravinraven I found that article while looking for the first one.

http://www.wftv.com/news/2288708/detail.html

He saw the 'gator heading for a woman with 2 small children and he roped and "penned" it against a fence until wildlife officials arrived. They smacked him with a $180 fine. Public outrage lead to them reducing it to a warning. Apparently they don't want you stopping alligators from attacking women and children in Florida. I guess you are supposed to call Wildlife Officials and watch the little tykes dodge 'gator jaws until the officials show up.
 
You have to remember that WIldlife Officers are less for law enforcement than they are for revenue enhancement for the state.
 
I believe that this is the sissification of the male

How naive of you to think that you can do for yourself, that is the governments job.

You think that you have the common sense to identify a problem, and deal with it in the correct manner, without consulting experts? I bet you don't even have 911 on speed dial!:cuss: Neanderthal!

Folks should be punished for using common sense and initiative, fined and/or incarcerated.:rolleyes:
 
Anyone know if the Castle Doctrine is only good for human attackers?

Even if it was a warning, there is one more woman and her kids who have a lot less respect for the law and law enforcement. It's a shame.
 
I dunno, but I figure that if a gator came in my house and attacked my dog, within a week or two I'd have a fancy new set of saddlebags for my scoot and a gator's face would be plastered on milk cartons all over the country.
I'm just sayin'....

Biker
 
A 1 oz. slug to the brainpan usually disables 'gators. Fine me if you want but if one is threatening my dogs or kids, it's history. Most of the time they are harmless and will do just about anything to get away from people but it's the ones that are disabled and/or that have been hand-fed that create the most havoc.

PSA - IF YOU SEE AN ALLIGATOR, DO NOT FEED IT. LEAVE IT ALONE. DON'T CHUCK ROCKS AT IT! DON'T POKE IT WITH A STICK! LEAVE IT BE.

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"How does one receive a warning for exercising common sense and doing what needs to be done to alligators"

It is a result of the Public School system in America. She was given a warning citation for "hunting without a license.."

The Gator entered her home, from a dog door, and went after her dogs, and her daughter. (I heard her on Fox myself, talking to the News Anchorperson)

Hunting is the pursuit with intent to take game. Keeping a Gator from killing your daughter, is hardly "hunting game without a license".

Was this "warning" intended to tell the woman to simply let a game species attack her daughter, should her daughter once again be attacked in their BLEEPING home?

What idiots. No wonder they had trouble voting in Florida. If their law enforcement agency personnel are totally vapid of the ability to reason, then it is no wonder they could not figure out how to line up a name, with a hole to punch.
 
I've heard that Alligator tastes like chicken :neener:

There is definitely something wrong with the LEOs when they issue tickets for saving life & limb or protecting property.

And as far as the bear story, now that I carry, I would probably call the DNR or cops and ask for permission to dispatch the critically wounded and vicious bear. I've been told that's what needs to be done when people hit deer with their vehicles up here.
 
thats Florida for ya

a combo of great laws and silly anal retentive ones.
When I was a kid Alligators were rare, now that they are
protected they have florished...they are reptillian rodents
and need to be hunted again.

The FL natives I met seem to be really scared of even looking crosseyed at a gator for fear of jail time.
A friend got drunk and told me he bashed ones head that was going after his dog, he threw it back into the lake and was truly paranoid about getting caught and made me swear never to tell...oop's....
I have a feeling there will be a backlash against gator rights
 
Yep

"I've heard that Alligator tastes like chicken"
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Yep. I had some fried gator tail once. Just like chicken.:)

I've been fishing and boating down here in Florida for years, and I've never had a problem with gators. Leave them alone and they'll leave you alone.
 
Even though this was only a warning, is there some sort of complaint that she could file against this Wildlife officer?

Shooting an animal in your home or yard is not hunting. Hell, I don't even think baiting and ambushing deer is hunting. Oh well.
 
And as far as the bear story, now that I carry, I would probably call the DNR or cops and ask for permission to dispatch the critically wounded and vicious bear. I've been told that's what needs to be done when people hit deer with their vehicles up here.
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I know in MA that if you hit an animal with your car and it isn't dead you have to wait for a game warden to shoot it. Even if you are legally armed you cannot shoot it. Not sure if it's an issue of someone firing a gun on the side of a public road or something stupid like someone thinks you are making the animal suffer more if you don't kill it with the first shot.

Afterall if it's lying on the road terrified and all busted up you wouldn't want to have to shoot it twice, that would be cruel. it's better to make it wait a hour or more for a game warden.
 
Actually the requirement to wait for a game warden is so that if someone is caught with a poached deer they can't claim that they hit with their vehicle and put it out of its misery.
 
Oh come on!

That is the same excuse they use for keeping me from carrying my pistol when bowhunting. So I cannot say I shot that deer with my bow, when I really used my handgun.

I do believe that a busted up bruised deer, whith associated damage to a vehicle (not necessarily mine), should be evidence enough that I didn't poach one of the kings deer.

The game wardens where I live are smarter than that. (Holy cow...did I just defend a LEO?:confused: How did that happen?)
 
I didn't say I like it, I said that's the reason for the law. I had to sit and watch a button buck die three months ago because I couldn't put it down.

Same rationale for why we have to toss back a badly hooked trout or salmon if it's outside the slot. You know it's gonna die but it's still gotta go back. Otherwise every poacher out there would be claiming their fish was bleeding from the gills.
 
Quote Re: Gators

"Leave them alone and they'll leave you alone."


The damn thing entered a residential structure through a dog door, and went after the dogs, and a child.

Staying inside one's house, is pretty much "leaving them alone, isn't it?"

What about those three women that the gators ate. Eating a human being alive, certaiinly does not meet the interpretation of "leaving you alone."
 
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