HUGE ALLIGATOR

This photo was taken by a Lifeflight helicopter flying over Lake Istapoka, which is near Sebring, FL.

This has to be a HUGE gator to have a whole deer in its mouth!

The alligator was found between Lake Istapoka and Pinedale estates... near a house.

Game Wardens were forced to shoot the alligator. Jayne and Don Hobkirk could hear
the bellowing in the night. Their neighbors had been telling them that they had seen a mammoth alligator in the Lake that runs behind their house, but they dismissed the stories as being exaggerations.

"I didn't believe it," Don Hobkirk said. Friday they realized the stories were,
if anything, understated. Florida Game and Parks game wardens
had to shoot the beast...

Joe Goff, 6' 5" tall, a game warden with the Florida Game and Parks Commission, walks past the 23-foot, one inch alligator that he shot and killed in the back yard of Jayne &Don Hobkirk...