Giant Gator in Texas

[BUGKILLER]

Can anyone from Texas confirm or deny this story,or was it just a Photoshop pic? I got it in an email. :eek:
It said:
This picture was taken by a KTBS helicopter flying over Lake Conroe!
(For those of you who are not local, Lake Conroe is about 50 miles north of Houston)
This alligator was found between Athens and Palestine, Texas near a house.
Game wardens were forced to shoot the alligator- guess he wouldn't cooperate...
Anita and Charlie Rogers could hear the bellowing in the night.
Their neighbors had been telling them that they had seen a mammoth alligator in the waterway that runs behind their house, but they dismissed the stories as exaggerations.
"I didn't believe it," Charles Rogers said. Friday they realized the stories were, if anything, understated.
Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast Joe Goff, 6'5" tall, a game warden with
the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, walks past a 23-foot, 1-inch alligator that he shot and killed in their back yard.


http://www.bmwlt.com/gallery/files/1/1/7/2/8/Gator3.JPG
http://www.bmwlt.com/gallery/files/1/1/7/2/8/Gator1.JPG
http://www.bmwlt.com/gallery/files/1/1/7/2/8/Gator2.JPG

[hagar]

It wasn't Texas, it was spotted in Georgia.

[early1]

That's a leeetle feller on Caddo

[davemoore]

The last pic is Texas. It has made the rounds here so many rimes, I'm tired of refuting it. But, one more time, Snopes gives the straight pookie - Not Palestine, but West Columbia (near the gulf coast south of Houston). Not 23', it's 13 feet. The largest gator ever caught/killed in the US was 18' in Louisiana by McIlhenny of Tabasco sauce fame.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/wcgator.asp

[LTsaddledance]

Not Texas, Georgia.

www.fws.gov/southeast/news/2004/r04-073.html

[davemoore]

Not Texas, Georgia.

www.fws.gov/southeast/news/2004/r04-073.html


Pics 1&2, Georgia. Pic 3, Texas.