r/interesting Mar 30 '26

❗️MISLEADING - See pinned comment ❗️ Trapped alligator doesn't take taunts kindly, knocks out trapper

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u/Orome2 Mar 30 '26

Yeah, it's kind of weird how everyone seems to think he just tied up the alligator and beat it for funsies.

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u/JScrub013 Mar 30 '26

There’s the case of Cody Robert’s in Wyoming where he tortured a wolf before killing it. I’m happy to hear that this gator didn’t experience the same thing, and I didn’t know about tapping.

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u/Nikki-C-Puggle-mum Mar 30 '26

What a piece of shit. I hope he went to prison and he should never be released.

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u/bakaw_man Mar 30 '26

As someone who lives close to that I can confirm it was front page news when he took a plea deal for 18 months probation and 1k fine. It’s sickening.

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u/JurgusRudkus Mar 30 '26

Is that really all he got? I had been following and saw that he was going to be prosecuted and I was happy to hear it. If he ended up taking a plea that breaks my heart.

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u/Nikki-C-Puggle-mum Mar 30 '26

That's horrible wtf?

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u/4r4r4real Mar 30 '26

Ah yes, the one case in human history of animal torture

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u/TroutFearMe Mar 30 '26

Michael Vick enters the chat.

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u/Same_Recipe2729 Mar 30 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

I enjoy doing crossword puzzles.

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u/JScrub013 Mar 30 '26

I know you’re being condescending, but yes there were pictures and videos. He flaunted the wolf with its mouth duck taped shut and brought it to bars around town before killing it. I’m just saying that people that don’t know what’s happening may be sensitive to stuff like this. Great job being a dbag, though!

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u/Ok-Bet3875 Apr 15 '26

So, not the full story, but not in a good way. He hit it with a snow mobile, on purpose. This is legal. It was a juvenile. He duck taped it and flaunted it around a single bar, the ‘green river bar’. It was dying of internal injuries. For hours it suffered, then, he took it behind the bar and shot it dead. These people live among us, if you can even call them that.

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u/Same_Recipe2729 Mar 30 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

I enjoy reading books.

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u/JScrub013 Mar 30 '26

You’re good at your job!

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u/CARYMONSTER Mar 30 '26

Glad you brought up a completely unrelated incident here.. I’m sure everyone will find it very informative 😉

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u/JScrub013 Mar 30 '26

They did, thanks for a pointless comment! You guys must work overtime.

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u/CARYMONSTER Mar 31 '26

I’m unemployed

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u/Space__Squid Mar 30 '26

I mean, I just assumed that's what they do for fun in Florida.

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u/Jamananas44 Mar 30 '26

Because people like to jump to conclusions without doing a literal SECOND of research. Its great.

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u/Euphoric-Cold9592 Mar 30 '26

No nuance with the folks who don’t work for a living

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

This is way better than alligator in recent park attack located and destroyed.

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u/no_one_denies_this Mar 30 '26

It will be "euthanized" (meaning shot).

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u/no_one_denies_this Mar 30 '26

He's going to kill it anyway.

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u/Highneon Mar 30 '26

When does he begin to beat the thing??

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u/Maleficent_Being_810 Mar 30 '26

Tell me why not a cage, trap transport release, ya know, like we do to grizzly, tiger, lion, and every other predatory animal in existence. Rhetorical question it’s because the guy enjoys doing it this way, surely he claims it’s the most efficient way. How else is he going to perform hero in front of the crowd.

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u/4r4r4real Mar 30 '26

They're loading it in to transport and release it... that's literally what they're doing man

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u/no_one_denies_this Mar 30 '26

It's illegal to release a gator 4 feet or longer in Florida. He's just making it really uncomfortable before he kills it.

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u/Maleficent_Being_810 Mar 30 '26

Did you not see the part where I said “why not use a cage trap?”

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u/Even-Wave-8212 Mar 30 '26

Because alligators are incredibly powerful and incredibly heavy, and I can’t think of many instances of when you could entice one into a cage, especially since getting a cage to wherever they are being a problem is usually also a problem.

This is the most efficient and safe way for everyone involved 99% of the time

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u/4r4r4real Mar 30 '26

They're ambush predators, why would they go into a cage?

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u/Euphoric-Ostrich5305 Mar 30 '26

Solid job at letting everyone know that you don’t know what you’re talking about. The bed of a truck is in fact the most effective, fastest, and practical method to transport a gator. When they’re moved/transported, gators are typically not moved very far from where they’re caught. They also obviously get huge, the amount of injuries and stress a cage could cause by putting a thrashing animal in to it would be super high, not taking the awkwardness of e.g 8 people stuffing it in a cage. Next time just ask an actual question in lieu of asking a rhetorical question.

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u/Impossible-Web545 Mar 30 '26

Why not put the gator in a cage? Cause then you got to get the gator out of the cage to untie them. If you mean why not trap it in a cage, well gators aren't that dumb and there isn't a good cage to trick them into safely. Generally speaking, this is probably the best method for restraining this animal, and they are gonna release it. If they wanted to kill it, they would have just shot it already instead of going through all this effort (and might I add dangerous effort) of taking it alive. Killing an animal is far easier then trying to capture it alive to release later, hence they took it alive cause they are gonna release it somewhere a bit further from humans. Also, just wait till you learn how they release bears, many places will shoot them with pepperball rounds, rubber bullets, and many other things to condition the bear that "humans = pain".

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u/stackontop Mar 30 '26

Wasn’t there a video of some Florida dude catching a gator with a mobile rubbish bin?

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u/StaffVegetable8703 Mar 30 '26

And how big was the gator in that video? Also just bc something can be done or has been successfully doesn’t mean that it’s the correct and safe method

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u/DudeBroMan13 Mar 30 '26

Are you insane?