One summer afternoon in Gainesville....

[bmt336]

we get a call that 2 hikers have gone a mile and a half out into Paynes Prarie state park and are cut off by a large alligator next to the path that is making menacing sounds when they try to pass. The path is only one car wide and there is no way back because the overlook is 1.5 miles out in the prarie, which is actually a swampy area, filled with LOTS of gators and cotton mouth mocassins, etc. So I get down there with a couple of Alachua County Deputies and the helicopter.

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so the chopper says they dont see the gator, the hikers insist it is there and will not come towards where we are.....
then they are proven correct.......

[bmt336]

so the chopper flies low and spooks the gator back down in the water so we can get to the hiker, That is me in the blue uniform with the pistol, my trusty glock model 21 in potent 45 cal. form....

[bmt336]

and ultimately all is safe and secure, the citizenry of our fair community is safe......

[Winterpark SSP]

That young man would have been a mere appetizer for that Gator!

[mustangretriever]

I think I'd have taken the taken the 870 with slugs instead of the .45 Glock!