10 Year Old Brings Allligator Home

**TheMorningStar** · May 28th, 2011, 02:49 PM

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers were called to the Rockledge home of Michael Dasher on Wednesday after the boy's grandfather saw the alligator in the front yard.
Michael told the officers he had been fishing with friends when something big caught the hook and snapped the line. The boy said the alligator ran at him, so he started hitting it with sticks and jumped on its back.
Michael dragged the alligator home and suffered only minor scratches on his hands and arms. Wildlife officers measured the alligator at 5 feet 9 inches long.
The officers let Michael off with a stern talk but no charges. They'll release the alligator back into the St. John's River.

http://www2.tbo.com/news/offbeat/201...m-c-ar-232810/

**walkingeagle** · May 28th, 2011, 02:53 PM

This kid was being attacked! Screw the WWF!

**Mare** · May 28th, 2011, 02:55 PM

My husband and daughter are in Rockledge until Thursday, I hope they don't bring back an alligator!

If they do, I will shove it in the East River!

**Countess Olenska** · May 28th, 2011, 03:12 PM

This size alligator is very dangerous. They are fast and mean at this age. Snap your arm right off with a roll. To think, I used to go water skiing in the Hillsborough river with them all over.

**Robynne** · May 28th, 2011, 03:46 PM

That is one tough kid. He fought a fucking alligator. And he came out with only a few scratches. Luck was definitely on his side.

**Silvahalo** · May 28th, 2011, 04:42 PM

The boy said the alligator ran at him, so he started hitting it with sticks and jumped on its back.
Michael dragged the alligator home and suffered only minor scratches on his hands and arms. Wildlife officers measured the alligator at 5 feet 9 inches long.

SHIT! i'd give my kid a prize for that...a stern warning?? wtf? seems like he was defending himself and did a damn good job doing it. I swear i would have been beside myself having my kid bring that thing home...and yea could see him doing that...but lordy, that he came out of it with only scratches is saying a lot!
he should be praised not punished at all tho i'd tell him to never think of dragging a thing like that back home again...run, run and run!

**Rockin Ma** · May 28th, 2011, 06:14 PM

Originally Posted by Mare

My husband and daughter are in Rockledge until Thursday, I hope they don't bring back an alligator!

If they do, I will shove it in the East River!

Throw it in the sewers. You have to know of NY mythology about the gators there.

**Jerri Blank** · May 30th, 2011, 12:42 AM

I have no love of alligators. They are freakin terrifying! I know I should care and respect all creatures and I mostly do, in fact if I catch a bug in the house I won't kill it, I toss it outside, but I just don't feel any empathy for these creatures.

I wouldn't want to see them poached to extinction but if the last one was in my backyard I probably would have no qualms with shooting it. I kinda think of them as walking sharks - running sharks is more like it. screw that noise!!

This kid must be like bam bam flintstone to be able to haul a huge living monster like that back home. that really is amazing!

**TACO** · May 30th, 2011, 12:46 AM

I think he watches too much swamp people! rofl:

**walkingeagle** · May 30th, 2011, 10:41 AM

I need to send this to my mother! She used to get mad at us for bringing snakes home!

**AngelFire** · May 31st, 2011, 05:35 PM

Michael told the officers he had been fishing with friends when something big caught the hook and snapped the line. The boy said the alligator ran at him, so he started hitting it with sticks and jumped on its back.

Something about this statement just made me chuckle. Can you guys imagine that scene?

**Gidget** · May 31st, 2011, 05:39 PM

I thought they were talking about like a 3 foot baby or something. Now, a baby would still hurt like hell and maybe lop off a finger or two, but a five or six footer? No thank you.

**Obsolete** · May 31st, 2011, 06:10 PM

He was defending himself when he hit and jumped on the alligator, he wasn't defending himself when he took it home with him and that's what the stern warning was for. He could have been killed or seriously injured, the authorities were probably just scaring him in the hopes that he wouldn't try to wrastle any more gators.