The following is a transcript of radio communication between a helicopter pilot and game warden:
'Air1, have you a visual on the gator? Over.'
'Approaching inlet now; over.'
'Roger, Air1.'
'Gator sighted. Looks like it has a small animal in its mouth. Moving in; over.'
'Roger, Air1.'
'It's a deer!'
'Confirm, Air1! Did you say 'deer'? Over.'
'Roger. A deer in its mouth.. Looks like a full-sized buck. That's a big gator! We're gonna need more men. Over.'
'Roger, Air1. Can you give me a idea on size of the animal? Over.'
'It's big...25 feet at least. Please advise; gator is heading to inlet. Do I pursue? Over.'
The deer was later found to be a mature stag and was measured at 11 feet!
The alligator was found between Georgia and South Carolina . Game wardens were forced to shoot the alligator...guess he wouldn't cooperate.
Anita and Charlie Rogers could hear the bellowing at night. Their neighbors had been telling them that they had seen a mammoth alligator in the waterway that runs behind the Rogers' house, but they dismissed the stories as exaggerations.
'I didn't believe it,' Charles Rogers said ; however, they later realized the stories were, if anything, understated.
Joe Goff, a 6'5' tall game warden, walks past the 28-foot, 1-inch alligator (8.5 meters) he shot and killed in the Rogers ' backyard.
