[Mishmash] New Florida Rules May Give Homeowners Right to Trap, Kill Gators

[Susan Flewelling]

At 07:44 AM 5/13/07, you wrote:
><mailto:fatkinson at mishmash.com>fatkinson at mishmash.com writes:
> It just angers me something awful when that women shot at that alligator
>when it was attacking her dog and they charged her for it.
> 
>A human intruder comes on private property with hostile intent, you can shoot him.  But not a gator?   Come on Florida.  Get it right!

You can't shoot him here in Canada - or even hurt him - or you'll be charged with assault!   There was caase here in Calgary where a mugger tried to rob a couple at a train station (local inner city trains) and the man stabbed and killed the mugger with a pocket knife.  It was months before the authorities decided not to charge him - but that's not the norm.

Susan