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Alligators Kill Pets
By Debbie Williams Reporter
Published: Tue, October 23, 2007 - 4:32 pm
Last Updated: Tue, October 23, 2007 - 5:29 pm
Last Updated: Tue, October 23, 2007 - 5:29 pm
Debbie Williams
Chasity Gulsby has quite a tale to tell. "Driving across the causeway and all of a sudden I was driving and I hit this bump went up in the air and went down and I looked back and there was an alligator. I hit an alligator on the causeway."
She could hardly believe it, "I turned around and went back and looked and there's a gator laying on the side of the road and I'm like what?"
Alabama Fish and Wildlife officers say it's not unusual to see alligators on the causeway - but this case was unusual enough to cause a chuckle.
"I called 9-1-1," says Gulsby, "They laughed at me, called dispatch and they were like gator versus car on the causeway."
It was an early morning commute, still dark and raining when Gulsby drove her car across the causeway and across the 12 foot alligator.
"A little Kia and it went right over the top of it and there's nothing wrong with it," Gulsby says about the condition of her car.
As an exterminator, Gulsby deals with creepy, crawlies all the time but she hopes this is the last alligator she ever runs into.
The causeway is no stranger to alligators, Fish and Wildlife officers say they roam all over the place chasing food. What is unusual about this particular gator was his size.
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Glad driver and car are fine, she most like saved small pets and even children. With corporations building, destroying natural habitats, the creatures have no where to go but into the general human population. Here in central Florida you see alligators in canals (going to Kennedy Space Center) some even venture up to where visitors are. And then we have my favorite, the gator at Sawgrass who always makes an appearance for the TPC.