Say you're driving in your neighborhood

[saraandmichael]

and there is a 4.5 foot alligator crossing the street. would you run over it or wait until it went across to the empty lot and then watch it crawl into the pond behind your house?

[zoidberg]

If you run over it, then you have a gross dead alligator in front of your house.

[eddy]

LOL

Oh floridans

I would not run it over. I think alligators are cool if they aren't eating me.

[Captain Serious]

I would turn around and pretend I didn't see it.

[Deleted]

Well I live in New England so if there was an alligator I would call Animal Control. Haha.

If I was in an area where they were native I would probably burst into tears, bang a Uie and speed off in the opposite direction. omg those things are so scary

[saraandmichael]

also, this is just a hypothetical that i was thinking of as i drove home this morning.

there was an alligator crossing the street that i drive on to get home (but not the street i live on) a couple of weeks ago. he was crossing the street and some sandhill cranes were trying like mad to get him to leave the empty lot he was going into that eventually lead him to the pond that sits behind my house.

and it got me thinking...if i were driving my car at the time i'd be tempted to run it over, because alligators scare the piss out of me and i have kids and dogs and it could get hungry and eat one of us. but i'd feel really bad killing an alligator so i would probably just take pictures of it crossing the road and then be paranoid forever about it creeping up on us.

[kwx2]

Why would you ever run it over?

[Deleted]

Ooo I love these games! I choose option B then call gator control.

[HiC]

Let it pass and call animal control! My mom has alligators (and bobcats) in her backyard. I sit in her covered lanai and watch them.


PS.  My mom was chased by one of the baby alligators that live in her pond.  Haha!  Apparently they hiss and are very fast.

[bcv513]

God I want to move to Florida. I'd much rather deal with gators than snow and ice

[underwaterrhymes]

Wait.

I don't think Animal Control can do anything until they're over 4 feet, so you might be able to call them and notify them for relocation.

[VeryViolet]

I saw someone do this to a snake once. There is no one that hates snakes more than me and I was horrified. I mean the alligator is scary but even if you want it dead I hope it isn't done by running it over.

[muffin0]

My old neighbor was old and used to hunt before he got old and tired easily. 6 months before he died he shot a gator that wasin the canal behind our house (we lived on a large lake, gators are there)

He killed it, but someone reported him and he had to go to court and take some sort of course about illegally killing animals and animal abuse. (I guess it wasn't season or something??)

But yeah if you run it over make sure no one is watching!

Personally I wouldn't run it over, I would be tempted but my luck I wouldn't kill it I would just injure it and then I would have to go all Rambo on the poor thing and run it over a bunch of times.

[muffin0]

Dec 12, 2013 9:33:17 GMT -5 VeryViolet said:

I saw someone do this to a snake once. There is no one that hates snakes more than me and I was horrified. I mean the alligator is scary but even if you want it dead I hope it isn't done by running it over.

My aunt ran one over on accident. We were all screaming it was awful!

[papie]

Is set the place on fire and move to Canada an option?

[papie]

Dec 12, 2013 9:29:54 GMT -5 bcv513 said:

God I want to move to Florida. I'd much rather deal with gators than snow and ice

You are crazy!

[snickers]

I would put my house up for sale, lol.

Seriously, an alligator on your road? That is insane!
But I would not run it over, I can't run over anything without crying

[sonrisa]

I like earthquakes. That is all.

[copperboom]

I'd probably tremble in a corner for a while, then move to Canada. It's the only reasonable reaction.

[Deleted]

I'd leave it alone. But I would also be afraid of it being out there forever.

[Deleted]

Leave it alone. I'm pretty sure they're protected in Florida. You need to notify a wildlife control company.

[Deleted]

I would call animal control and report it.

Like I have at least 10 times in my life. Lol.

This is why I wanted a FENCE on the lake house people.

That damn neighbor is cray cray.

[circa1978]

D. Call animal control and go get some coffee but I wouldn't expect anything to happen too quickly. At the last job I had in Fort Lauderdale, it took more than a week to trap the alligator who was hanging out in a nearby drainage area.

[alzi]

I would have done exactly what you did. Take pictures and hope for the best.

[Deleted]

Dec 12, 2013 9:41:26 GMT -5 snickers said:

I would put my house up for sale, lol.

Seriously, an alligator on your road? That is insane!
But I would not run it over, I can't run over anything without crying

There was one crossing four lanes if traffic by my office two tears ago.


It's Florida. Alligators happen.

[CheshireGrin]

Alligators freaking terrify me more than any other living creature on this planet. I do not know why, since I don't live in the south and I've never even seen one outside of a zoo or a movie. Yet I have this irrational fear of alligators. The very thought of them makes me panic.

[snickers]

Dec 12, 2013 9:55:54 GMT -5 @lazerus24 said:

Dec 12, 2013 9:41:26 GMT -5 snickers said:

I would put my house up for sale, lol.

Seriously, an alligator on your road? That is insane!
But I would not run it over, I can't run over anything without crying

There was one crossing four lanes if traffic by my office two tears ago.


It's Florida. Alligators happen.

So crazy to me!
But cool crazy!

[lkoenig]

wait do people really run them over?

[adhdfashion]

Running it over might mess up your car. I would call a pest removal company.

[CurlyQ284]

Call the Gator Boys on animal planet! They catch them and then they get to live on a nice alligator sanctuary.

I've watched it enough times so I'm pretty sure I could wrangle an alligator but unfortunately for you I live in Virginia.