10-foot alligator captured near downtown Fort Worth
Source: AP
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A blind alligator stretching more than 10 feet has been removed from the Trinity River in a park near downtown Fort Worth and taken to a refuge.
Game wardens and a reptile hunter, Chris Stevens, used a noose to capture the male gator Thursday night at Riverside Park.
Stevens said the animal needed to be moved to ensure public safety.
"The problem is not the alligator — it's the people," he said. "Being in that high profile of a location, people are going to start feeding it, and anytime you have an alligator like this, it's just a matter of time before people poke it."
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Licensed nuisance alligator hunter Chris Stevens, game wardens and Tarrant Regional Water District employees catch a 10-foot alligator in the Trinity River east of downtown Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, July 9, 2015. It will be relocated. (Rodger Mallison/Star-Telegram via AP) MAGS OUT; (FORT WORTH WEEKLY, 360 WEST); INTERNET OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT
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all the drainage waterways are full of big fat invasive fish and the invasive wild hogs have to drink water, those gators must be loving their modern day life 
maybe we should import some florida boas invasive snakes, I read the 20 foot boas will eat those large gators!
I guess with climate change, if there is enough flood water perhaps the gators will spread to Oklahoma and migrate north along with the Asian carp and wild pigs.
