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Probably no one will be surprised that somewhere in the Amazon jungle huge alligators capable of several meters easily bite in half a fishing boat. However when you learn that such monsters can live within the boundaries of a settlement, where you live becomes, to put it mildly, uncomfortable.
So Lee Lightsey from Florida, an experienced hunter, shot the other day a huge crocodile eating his animals, and not chickens or rabbits, but adult cows!
This is not easy to believe, but the length of the monster, who lived right along next door to the american family was about four with half meters, and its weight exceeded three hundred sixty kilograms! Wanting to protect the herd and be sure of the safety of relatives, the farmer enlisted the support of his friend Blake Godwin and went to the nearest reservoir to fight the monstrous reptile.
According to Lightsey, from a small pond next door his cattle always drank water. It’s not known where so terrible came from alligator, however, the predator began to periodically drag the cows to bottom, and then eat them. Frightened animals stopped walking on watering and began to literally die of thirst. Then the farmer decided show the monster who is the boss here, that is, eliminate the formidable pest.
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The alligator was dangerous to people.
Lee and Blake waited more than seven hours for the reptile to appear. on the surface. The ferocious cow eater was killed by a well-aimed shot. to the head from a hunting rifle with increased destructive power. To to get production from the water, the Americans needed a tractor with excavator bucket.
Alligator meat is considered to be very tasty and tender in America. Happy hunters plan to donate almost three centners of this delicacies at the local shelter for the poor, and from the skin of a dead monster make a scarecrow to showcase it at various exhibitions.
Despite all the cash costs and cattle losses, Lee Lightsey claims that he did not feel any hatred for this crocodile. “This is a wild animal, created by nature in the same way as man. also had to eat something, so no deceit in his no action. However, I could not let him devour my cows, and, moreover, he could undoubtedly be a danger to people. Therefore, I had to shoot him. Fortunately fast and painlessly, “the farmer told local reporters.
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