Alabama Gator
from the Internet

This  alligator was found between Centre and Leesburg,
Alabama  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. 

Alabama Parks and Wildlife Game Warden Joe Goff, 6'5" tall,

"I  didn't believe it," Charles Rogers said, but they realized the stories were,  if anything, understated.  

Alabama Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast.  Joe Goff, 6'5" tall, a game  warden, walks past  the 23-foot, 1-inch alligator he shot and  killed in their back yard.