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Originally Posted by lady cop
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Garvey roped it around the neck and, with the help of two Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers and two others, dragged it up the eight-foot rock and soil embankment.
It took them half an hour.
Once on land, 180-pound Garvey straddled the squirming back of the 400-pound gator and taped its mouth shut with electrical tape.
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There was video of the capture on the news. A crew of guys pulling on the rope pulled it close enough to shore for a F&W guy to hit it in the head with a
bangstick, then they dragged it up on the canal embankment with it's mouth gaping wide open, no tape that I saw. The half hour part, I agree was probably true, it was a big fellow. Funny, after the bangstick it didn't resist at all.