Tonight my wife was outside with our two year old daughter when she spotted a four or five footer hanging out in the ditch at the end of the driveway. It was about ten feet from our daughter. My nieghbor and tried to catch it so we could relocate it back to lake across the road, but, it got away. The lake is about 500 yards away. It's now underwater somewhere, but, still close as the ditch is small. There is only two feet of water in the ditch which is about 200 feet long.
After trying to catch it and failing, I thought maybe I should have just shot it. Normally I would leave alligators alone, but, this guy is a little too close to home. We also have a small dog and a cat.
BTW, one of my stupid liberal nieghbors kept yelling at us to leave it alone. I told him to fuck off. I'm sure he would call the cops if he saw me shoot it, hence my question.