http://www.kansascity.com/2011/06/02/2920682/police-shoot-gator-find-out-its.html (http://www.kansascity.com/2011/06/02/2920682/police-shoot-gator-find-out-its.html)
"Police responding to an alligator sighting in a suburban Kansas City pond took quick action to dispatch the big reptile.
It wasn't until after the second rifle shot bounced off the beast Sunday that the three Independence officers realized it was a concrete lawn ornament.
Independence police spokesman Tom Gentry says the department received a call from a man who said a gator had been spotted in the woods.
Gentry says the alligator was in the weeds near a tree by a pond and it looked real. An officer shot the gator twice in the head — per instructions from a conservation officer — before realizing it wasn't moving.
Gentry says the landowner told officers he put the fake gator there to keep children off his property.
| The Associated Press"
Oops!! Bet someones gonna get a talkin to!!!
I read this and wondered what the heck the caller was doing tresspassing on the owner's land to even see the "gator". Secondly, I wonder why the police would not talk with the landowner first?
Them concrete gators are tuff!!!
At least they hit it! :TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
Is there even alligators in Missouri? :o
Quote from: davisd9 on June 02, 2011, 02:28:28 PM
Is there even alligators in Missouri? :o
Apparently not. :laugh:
:bike2:
ima guna shootz me a gator boyz!!!!!
:TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
Quote from: davisd9 on June 02, 2011, 02:28:28 PM
Is there even alligators in Missouri? :o
Nope and we don't want them.
Quote from: DeWayne Knight on June 02, 2011, 11:35:52 AM
I read this and wondered what the heck the caller was doing tresspassing on the owner's land to even see the "gator". Secondly, I wonder why the police would not talk with the landowner first?
:agreed: sounds kinda strange?
I can hear Elly Mae now " come quick grannie,they's a big ol gator in tha cement pond. We best be gettin Uncle Jeds twice barreled shoot gun."