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We got a fax from FWC to go out to this small chicken farm. Hey guys, how's it going? Hey, hey. What's up, buddy? Got a bunch of chickens on my property. Slowly they've been disappearing and uh the other day I noticed a crocodile in the little swamp back there. Alligator? Yeah, alligator, croc, you know, all the same. No, they're not, but they it's probably an alligator. Said he saw an alligator laying in the swamp back here and so he figures that's where the chickens are actually disappearing to. When's the last time you saw him? Uh I actually saw him this morning a few hours ago, but he still sitting in there in the sun. You can see him from the shore.
Wow. That's a nice size gator. He hasn't moved in hours. Uh he's been baking, dude. His back is dry. Yeah. It was still sunning over in the corner of the property, which tells me that he's not afraid. So, you know, this alligator has a free source of food. I mean, if I was him, I'd be here. All right, guys. All right, let's do it. Let's go. Hey, big boy. How you doing? He's not too happy. I didn't notice when the alligator came up out of the bushes. He had fight in him. Welcome back to Mississippi, right? Yeah. We're in the alligator's environment. Scott, try to spin him the other way.
[snorts] He spins on a dime. He can slide on top of water. I'm going to spin him towards you, Trey. We're in there trying to move our feet around cuz it almost felt like quicksand. Get him back where you are standing, Scott. And as soon as I grabbed him by the tail and pulled him out, this alligator was ready to go. Get in front of him. Don't let him leave. This is a dangerous alligator. This alligator, he wants to get it loose. He wants to get away from us. While he's on top of that mud, he can spin really quick.
We're top heavy. We are supposed to put our feet down in that muck and we're going to get stuck. Jimmy was working it, Scott was working it, I was working it. One wrong step, if your foot gets stuck and that gator swings around, he's going to slide right up to you and he could grab a hold of your leg. If you don't get your leg out in time, your leg's toast. Try moving and spin him your way, buddy. Spin him your way. Get that action. You know, it was real mucky and very dangerous. We were getting stuck in the mud. This alligator was very quick and agile. He was spinning and jumping. You know, this alligator's the real deal.
All right, guys. I think we're going to jump him. All right, Scott. When you're ready. Trey, you going to frontal him or you want to Scott just to jump him. Trey, frontal Be careful, Scott. Go, Scott. Go, go, go. Stay on him. That is Josh. Go, Trey. Yep. This gator wasn't going to give up. I mean, while Scott was sitting on his back, he was still spinning trying to bite people. Oh. Until they got here, he didn't seem all that dangerous cuz he had just been sitting there for a few hours and I thought it'll probably be easy for them pull him out, but that wasn't the case at all. Once they got here, he just lit
up like a firecracker. He definitely looks like he's been eating a couple chickens. Ow! Hurry up! There's ants everywhere. Hurry up! We got ants! Hurry up! You know, overall the catch was fun, but once you jump on the back of the alligator and we're holding his jaws, you get eaten alive by little tiny ants. Look at his head. Yeah, there's ants all over him. I got ants in my pants. well, let's hurry up. Let's get him out of here before ants start biting us. All ants, they were basically floating right on the surface. So, as you jumped on
that gator, all the ants start going after you. Then they start climbing up my pants, so I had ants in the pants. Did they make you do the boogie dance? Maybe. I can go for a nice bubble bath right now. Woo! Eddie, you want to check him out? Yeah, he looks awesome, guys. Good job. He definitely looks like he ate a couple of your chickens, but I would not be surprised if he's missing a couple. He's a big gator. Oh, he's going to go. You know, this alligator is over 9 ft. So, you know,
it's real good that we got him. No one got hurt. His chickens aren't going to be eaten no more. So, I mean, it's good for everybody. I don't know what I would have done without you guys. All right, buddy. Have a good one. See you guys around. A fax just came in from the Florida Wildlife Commission for an alligator in the park. I've been there before, caught gators there. It's like my dream. It's the most crystal clear water uh in the whole county. But, I guess right now there's a Renaissance Fair going on.
Welcome to our realm. Good day to be. Bless you. How are you doing? It is a pleasure to see you upon these shores. We have such a problem here in our realm. We are hoping you can help us. Did you guys call about an alligator? An alligator? They're from the different shore. They must call their dragons alligators. So, this alligator, this dragon of which we speak has been vexing our villagers. We are hoping you will help us. Yeah, no problem. See. Is the dragon on land or in the water? He's in the water. Okay. So, it is our belief and our wish that you must disguise yourselves as villagers of our realm. So that you may take the dragon by surprise.
Ooh, very cunning indeed. So, should we escort them to the royal tailor? Excellent. The queen and the cardinal told us that we have to be dressed up in their attire. You know, I thought it'd be pretty cool. You know, I want to see everyone else dressed up. Seeing everyone else dressed up, it was really fun. It was funny. It added just a little bit of a twist to this catch. Paul wouldn't dress up, so he had to go and put his little swim gear on and he looked like a swamp fairy. That's what I call them. So now I guess you're off to capture the dragon with all the ingredients. Oh, they're going to meet you there.
Yeah, we're going to take my truck back there, okay? My carriage. You guys want to throw some daggers? One, two. Where's my Yeah. I don't know if they got caught up looking at certain things or whatever, but we got there before the rest of our crew. We see the dragon. It just sits there and it comes up and it goes down. So you see him all day, every day. There's not a soul in our village brave enough to go down there. May happen you gentlemen would be brave enough to do it for us. I am super Jimmy. I got a cape.
I can do everything. The water is crystal clear. It doesn't get that deep. There are some deep spots out there on the other side of the pond, but even there you go down 40 ft and it's crystal clear. One of my favorite things in the world to do is be in a pond or a canal or a clean clear body of water looking for a big alligator.
Usually when you put the noose on them about 70% of the time, they'll just go into a death roll or start fighting, try to bite the rope or the catch pole, whatever. This guy was just taking off. He just went to the bottom and was dragging me through the water. He didn't care what was around his neck. He was going to try to get away from it. The gator is thrashing back and forth to get away from what he perceives as a predator, me. He was going nuts. He was fighting me the whole way back to shore. Soon as I grabbed the rope, this alligator exploded. You have a knife at alligator mouth open and at any moment something go wrong.
He's in a bad mood. This alligator exploded. He had fight in him. This alligator, he wants to get it loose. He wants to get away from us. When a gator goes to what everybody calls a death roll, it's one of two reasons. He's either biting something and trying to rip it off or it's his last ditch effort to get away. He's still a lot of fighting him. He was throwing that tail around. He was throwing his head around. You know, this gator spun a lot. You know, he didn't just roll once. He rolled five, six, seven times right away and just kept going. It was hard to hold on to him. He's going to give that last bit of fight that he has.
Woo. That's a bad dude. He's a big alligator. Hey, the catch itself was great cuz it's such clear water and it's such a beautiful spot. It's a great gator. And that's a 9-ft beast of a gator. So, you know, all in all you really couldn't ask for too much. Oh, he's a good boy. Aw. He's a good boy. We'll meet you with the front. Excellent. Well. Okay, that'll work. When we arrived at the Renaissance Festival, Paul and I proceeded just to go look for this alligator. You know, we jumped into the truck and went straight to the back. Everybody else, I don't know where they went to. Please to take a knee. Your blades.
Gracias. In the name of San Juan, I do hereby grant thee the right to bear arms and the power to mete justice upon this land. Three cheers for these new knights. HIP
