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TrollerDave

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Train it to bite people who leave EZ-Up frames on the beach.
Train him to hold a spot on the beach for you. No more leaving your stuff on the beach or getting up at 4:00 in the morning to get a spot in the channel.
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@BoatCop had said one of his deputies swore they saw one by Bill Williams. But I think that was decades ago.

I am having a hard time remembering it now but I thought that was in Parker 25-30 years ago? I couldn’t remember if it was a wives tale or if Boatcop said it.. but now that you mention it I think it was Boatcop?

I thought some asshole released a couple of them but they caught them pretty quick..
 

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I am a wreck, I have lost my emotional support gator this weekend. He broke the string tied to my beach chair in the channel. I will throw in an extra 50.00 if found and returned with a RDP sticker on him.
 

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I am having a hard time remembering it now but I thought that was in Parker 25-30 years ago? I couldn’t remember if it was a wives tale or if Boatcop said it.. but now that you mention it I think it was Boatcop?

I thought some asshole released a couple of them but they caught them pretty quick..
@BoatCop just recently made a post about it. But he called it something else (not a gator some other species).
 

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That’s it!


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That’s it!


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I've heard they have been spotted in Bill Williams preserve 🤷‍♂️
 

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An oldie - https://www.havasunews.com/free_acc...cle_6db2f9ec-985c-11e9-b0f8-63235d313d54.html

2019 -

PARKER — An alligator in the Colorado River surprised some swimmers and boaters over the weekend.

It turned out to be a radio-controlled toy, according to the La Paz County Sheriff’s Office.

Sheriff spokesman Lt. Curt Bagby said he had received three calls about the alligator, and there were posts online speculating about it.


This is just the latest odd thing to be found in the river near Parker. On June 9, the day after the Parker Tube Float, divers from the sheriff’s office and Buckskin Fire Department removed two explosive devices, later identified as M80 fireworks, from the river at Castle Rock Shores RV Park. This RV park is located just north of where the Tube Float started at Buckskin Mountain State Park.


In October 2010, a real alligator was caught on the Colorado River by a fisherman and Fort Mohave Indian Tribe Animal Control.

He was a six-month-old gator named Wally, and he had gone missing a week earlier when the Shrine Circus was in the area.

The most famous items to be found in the Colorado River were the two fake skeletons, Bernie and Bernadette, who were found in May 2015.


A local snorkeler, Martin Sholl, saw them and reported to authorities he might have seen human remains on the bottom of the river.

When a diver went down to the site, he found the skeletons were fake.

The skeletons had been placed there by a Phoenix couple who were both divers.

They had purchased the skeletons as Halloween decorations from Costco, and had put them in the river as references for themselves on their dives. “Bernie” was named after the 1989 dark comedy, “Weekend at Bernie’s,” where two young insurance company executives have to maintain a ruse that their murdered boss is still alive.

The two fake skeletons caused a media sensation. Bagby said he was kept busy handling inquiries about them.

He added he was receiving calls from media is places he’d never even heard of.
 

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I grew up boating the Flint River in Georgia and you would literally be wakeboarding or tubing, and pass by an alligator sunbathing on shore. Lots of water moccasins too. Guess what…..we’re all still alive 🤣

Not going to lie though……bring a so cal kid it took a minute before I warmed up to the situation 🤣

Yeah...I was gonna say something similar. Grew up on NC and used to waterski on Lake Waccamaw. Ski right across them. LOL. Good times. Never really worried about getting bit even when down in the water. They pretty much stayed away from the HOOMANS. Used to visit my cousin in Pensacola in the summer and go night skinny dipping ....um I mean swimming in the local lakes with with bunch of girls. We never had a problem but I guess we could have. I'm too old and skered to do that now.
 

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1,000 bucks to the first person that can get an rdp sticker on this little guy.. and I mean the gator not Wayne lol

1,000 bucks to the first person that can get an rdp sticker on this little guy.. and I mean the gator not Wayne lol
I do have a RDP shirt on right now does that count?......LOL
 

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Yeah...I was gonna say something similar. Grew up on NC and used to waterski on Lake Waccamaw. Ski right across them. LOL. Good times. Never really worried about getting bit even when down in the water. They pretty much stayed away from the HOOMANS. Used to visit my cousin in Pensacola in the summer and go night skinny dipping ....um I mean swimming in the local lakes with with bunch of girls. We never had a problem but I guess we could have. I'm too old and skered to do that now.
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