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alligator hunter christy kroboth and an officer try to tie up this giant, 12 and a half foot, 800 pound, 50 year old alligator. his eyes are covered up. but he wanted nothing of it.. "we tried to do a front catch with him where you hold jaws and get him taped. but he was so she says she is licensed with the state and got the call there was a big alligator near oyster creek...behind a strip center on 59 near williams trace. a big gator close to people. "we tried several different attempts on how to catch him. finally,,we thought we had him wore out enough to put two people on the back of him and hold his mouth that way and kinda outweigh him which clearly did not work." the alligator is so big that they nick-named it wrapped up, and his legs tied lift from the home depot nearby to load him up. "he still had some fight in him. obviously, he just did a couple swats of his tail, no deaththroll or anything like that. so we were all able to get off safely then he was able to swat me with the tail." "keep in mind all of this was playing out, back behind this shopping center, as people out here
alligator hunter christy kroboth and an officer try to tie up this giant, 12 and a half foot, 800 pound, 50 year old alligator. his eyes are covered up. but he wanted nothing of it.. "we tried to do a front catch with him where you hold jaws and get him taped. but he was so she says she is licensed with the state and got the call there was a big alligator near oyster creek...behind a strip center on 59 near williams trace. a big gator close to people. "we tried several different...
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. : in sugar land, texas.alligator hunter christy kroboth and an officer tried to tie up a giant, 12d alligator. in this video.his eyes were covered up.but he wanted nothing of the capture. kroboth is licensed with the state and got the call from sugar land police early saturday morning. employees discovered the big gator behind a strip center when they arrived to work. authorities say it may have wandered over from the creek. >>: we tried different ways to catch something-him. >> j.r. : they named it "godzilla." once its snout was all wrapped up.and his legs tied up.it took a fork lift from a nearby home depot to load him up. kroboth said he will be taken to an alligator farm in el campo where he will live out his life. >> j.r. : the average price of gas rose a penny over the past two weeks.to $2.25 a gallon. the slight increase comes after prices previously fell 63 cents over 19 weeks. the end of the price decline bit. the highest average price of regular gasoline was $2.88 per gallon in los angeles. the lowest was $1.90 in baton rouge, louisiana. the u-s average diesel price is $2
. : in sugar land, texas.alligator hunter christy kroboth and an officer tried to tie up a giant, 12d alligator. in this video.his eyes were covered up.but he wanted nothing of the capture. kroboth is licensed with the state and got the call from sugar land police early saturday morning. employees discovered the big gator behind a strip center when they arrived to work. authorities say it may have wandered over from the creek. >>: we tried different ways to catch something-him. >>...
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alligator hunter christy kroboth and an officer try to tie up this giant, 12 and "we tried to do a front catch with him where you hold jaws and get him taped. but he was so big, his jaws were too big for my hands. i couldn't get my hands to fit around his mouth." she says she is licensed with the state and got the call alligator near oyster creek...behind a strip center on 59 near williams trace. a big gator close to people. "we tried several different attempts on how to catch him. finally, we thought we had him wore out enough to put two people on the back of him and the alligator is so big that they nick-named it godzilla. once its snout was all wrapped up, and his legs tied up, it took a fork lift from the home depot nearby to load him up. "he still had some fight in him. obviously, he just did a couple swats of his tail, no death roll or anything like that. so we were all able to get off safely then he was able to swat me with the tail." "keep in mind all of this was playing out, back behind this shopping center, as people out by the jaws and get him taped she says he will be taken t
alligator hunter christy kroboth and an officer try to tie up this giant, 12 and "we tried to do a front catch with him where you hold jaws and get him taped. but he was so big, his jaws were too big for my hands. i couldn't get my hands to fit around his mouth." she says she is licensed with the state and got the call alligator near oyster creek...behind a strip center on 59 near williams trace. a big gator close to people. "we tried several different attempts on how to catch...
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he called in christie kroboth with the gator squad to help. less than go weeks ago she wrangled an 800 pound gator. she was the first one they called. she did it outside a shopping center. the golf course gator named chubs proved to be no match. >> chubs. >>> much more news straight ahead in the next half hour. a huge break in the case of a teacher murdered in her students at princeton university are trying to get a name removed >>> our top stories this afternoon, the alleged ring leader in the paris terror attacks now officially declared dead. french officials confirming today that abdelhamid abaaoud was killed in yesterday's raid. police are still looking for two suspects in friday's attacks. >> mayor bill de blasio said the city will not be intimidated by isis's latest threat. officials say a video released by isis wednesday showing images of time's square originally came out in april but isis just added pictures of paris in the new video. >>> a woman found dead inside a home in long island. officials in merrick calls her death suspicious.
he called in christie kroboth with the gator squad to help. less than go weeks ago she wrangled an 800 pound gator. she was the first one they called. she did it outside a shopping center. the golf course gator named chubs proved to be no match. >> chubs. >>> much more news straight ahead in the next half hour. a huge break in the case of a teacher murdered in her students at princeton university are trying to get a name removed >>> our top stories this afternoon, the...
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take a look at this incredible video of alligator hunter/dental assistant christy kroboth taking on ator that was found near a shopping center in sugarland, texas. the alligator eventually taken to an alligator farm nearby. joining me now, christy, how are you? welcome. >> hi. thank you! thank you for having me. >> i understand that tu eat nails for breakfast but exactly walk us through what you did. >> sure. okay. so, i got the call early saturday morning at like 6:20 in the morning and the call came in as a seven-foot alligator. so i thought, yeah, sure, i'll go snatch this seven-foot alligator up with be no problem. do it all the time. obviously i get there and he was not seven foot. somebody miscalculated quite a bit. he was more than 13. and i just had to take a step back and figure out how we were going to catch this big guy. >> okay, christy. a few things. you said when you thought of a seven-foot alligator in a shopping mall, no big deal, i do this all the time. what the heck do you do all the time? >> well, i am licensed by texas parks and wildlife to capture nuisance alligat
take a look at this incredible video of alligator hunter/dental assistant christy kroboth taking on ator that was found near a shopping center in sugarland, texas. the alligator eventually taken to an alligator farm nearby. joining me now, christy, how are you? welcome. >> hi. thank you! thank you for having me. >> i understand that tu eat nails for breakfast but exactly walk us through what you did. >> sure. okay. so, i got the call early saturday morning at like 6:20 in the...