This was found between Orlando and Titusville, near a house.  How would you like to meet this fella in the dark?  Never let it be said that we don't grow them big in Florida .

Game wardens were forced to shoot the alligator- guess he wouldn't cooperate...

Anita and Charlie Rogers could hear the bellowing in the night.

There  neighbors had been telling them that they had seen a mammoth alligator in the waterway that runs behind their house, but they dismissed the stories as exaggerations. 


"I didn't believe it," Charles Rogers said.  Friday they realized the stories were, if anything, understated.  Florida  Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast Joe Goff, 6'5" tall, a game warden with the Florida Parks and Wildlife Department, walks past a 23-foot, 1-inch alligator that he shot and killed in their back yard.