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Five-year-old boy bags 12 1/2-foot, 800-pound alligator
October 2, 2009 | 9:21 am
Five-year-old Simon Hughes examines the alligator he shot on his family's ranch.
Five-year-old Simon Hughes has quite a show-and-tell for his schoolmates after bagging a 12 1/2-foot, 800-pound alligator.
The Goodrich, Texas, first-grader was out hunting Sunday with his father, Scott, and family friend Chuck Cotton on the Hughes' 5,000-acre property near Lake Livingston, reports the Houston Chronicle.
They had set a baited hook the evening before, and when they went to check it Sunday morning the line was in the water, taut.
When the reptile surfaced, Simon shot it from about 5 feet away with his junior-sized shotgun, killing it. Just to be certain, Cotton fired another shot with his pistol to make sure it was dead.
The youngster showed no fear. "I wasn't even afraid," Simon told a KTRE-TV reporter. "It's pretty much simple. I got my gun out and shot him."
Simon's mother, however, wasn't so nonchalant. "As a mom it sort of scares you to death, because there's alligators, there's snakes, there's all of that sort of thing out there," said Toni Hughes. "What we thought was huge was a 10-foot and this one just dwarfs the 10-foot. I mean its just so massive and prehistoric looking."
Here's a link to the KTRE segment of Simon talking about the one that didn't get away.
The gator, estimated to be 35 to 40 years old, is currently at the taxidermist, where the Hugheses are having the head -- which alone weighs 104 pounds -- mounted. They plan to make boots out of the hide and eat the meat.
This story is either bullshit or the parents are freaking idiots.
The Shop
Yeah, 5-is a tad young. But farm kids are about 40% more mature than city slickers of equal age. Good for him. Hope he grows up to be a good leader. Abe Lincoln was doing things at a young age too.
The fact remain that he was with his Father and a family friend.
And his dad was in the boat with him when he shot it.
some of these guys here remind of women..eeewwww,a gun
It didn't say that my dad handed me my gun so I could shoot it. A child that small has no business handling a gun in such small quarters as a boat. Now you can piss, bitch and moan all you want but this whole thing is either bullshit or the kids parent is some sort of whacked out "RED NECK" asshole.
The kid is five years old for crying out loud.
Pit Row
For the record:
Both of my son's had a 22 rifle at very young ages but they didn't lug them around as if it were the norm. I can see taking a young lad out and shooting a weapon but to allow a 5 year old to hold in his own possession a firearm is not what I would ever allow.
As far as the 12 year old getting a sex change operation?
I said we don't know shit about the circumstances and that it was no ones business other than those involved. I never said I agreed with it one way or the other.
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