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A 7-foot-6 alligator cracked the windshield of a trapper's SUV in Rosenberg (TX) Sunday morning after being caught the night before in Fulshear, about 40 miles west of Houston.

The adolescent male — blind in one eye from an apparent BB gun injury — was in the middle of a Fulshear road around 9 p.m. Saturday night when alligator trapper Christy Kroboth picked it up.

As she typically does after catching an alligator at night, Kroboth taped a towel around the alligator's eyes and left it overnight in the back of her small SUV with the windows down, she said.

When Kroboth came to check on the alligator around 9 a.m., she found her windshield broken in two places and the alligator wedged between the windshield and steering wheel, having climbed out of the trunk.

"I had to just go in my car and really slowly — at the alligator's pace — try to work him out," Kroboth said. "Once he was unstuck, we were able to just kind of coax him out of the car."

Kroboth dropped the alligator off at a farm in El Campo, about 40 miles southwest of Rosenberg, late Sunday morning.

"It was quite a sight this morning," Kroboth said. But, she added, "You can't be mad at him. He's an alligator."

Ice will freeze in He!! before I leave a live alligator in any vehicle.

Myron

My motto would be:

"Choot, Elizabeth, Choot!"

Man, I'm soooo glad you posted this before I went and did something silly!

Gators are good eating if you shoot them dead first.

Seven foot gator would not be my choice of hitch-hikers.

Is Christy an "alligator whisperer" ?
Or bait?

Both. She just hasn't got to the "bait/meal" part yet.

She's a NUT!

Last week a large gator, about 12½ feet was caught a few miles from my place, in the burbs. He had taken to chasing joggers and dogs. He was taken to a farm.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2016/05...hasing-joggers-in-Houston/2841464369215/

I wanna know how they assume the eye issue is from a bb gun....

The wound was actually probably from a shotgun. The video that accompanied the article showed several pellets lodged in the skin at various places on the body. They appeared to be lead and looked more like deformed shotgun pellets. They appeared to be too big and too deeply embedded to have been from a BB gun. They were all old wounds and, except for the eye, probably weren't bothering him much at all.

Back when I was young and stupid (as opposed to old and stupid now), a buddy and I were snake hunting and he caught an Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake. Just a small one, about five feet long. It was too big for our usual pillowcase bag, so we dropped it into a burlap potato sack, tie it off and threw it in the trunk of my car. When we went to get it out, the bag was empty. The snake had nosed its way through the loose weave of the burlap. We never did find that snake, but it was weeks before I could drive that car without looking under the seats with a flashlight.

In my college/grad school days, collecting trips were undertaken many times during the course of a year. Snakes, even venomous ones, were commonly just put into collecting sacks, most of which were actually old pillow cases which were tied into a knot in the top.

I can't count the number of times that someone discovered that the sack(s) had come untied and that the occupants were on the loose in the vehicle. Made for some impromptu "Chinese fire drills" and the occasional all points sweep of the vehicles at the conclusion to a field trip.

We don't have gators in Idaho but I'll keep this in mind in case they migrate here during global warming.

Don't leave armadillos in your truck either. They climb up under your dash and are hell to get out.

"As she typically does after catching an alligator at night, Kroboth taped a towel around the alligator's eyes and left it overnight in the back of her small SUV with the windows down, she said."

Well that's one way to keep your vehicle from being stolen.

up here we leave our doors and windows open so the occasional bear can mosey on through without demolishing the truck for the forgotten baloney sandwich.
no way i would have a 7 foot lizard in my rig.(unless he was made into boots first)

Oh, I dunno. I think she mostly has her chit together.

I mean, quitting time is Miller time!