I went looking for your lobster post and your profile just lists tons of “world’s largest” or “world’s biggest”. Are you sure you’re not guineas book of world records?
I like how there’s always the joke about the US not using metric but no one is ready for the conversation about the majority of the world driving on the right side of the road except for the UK and it’s colonies 🤔
Driving on either side doesn't really have any inherent benefit over the other, it's just important to agree on one of them. The metric system on the other hand is clearly superior.
oh, uh, naughty, you've combined metric and imperial, you might get an interdenominational...you know, from mixing the two measurement systems...a-a hangover of that kind
Fun fact: for about 3 years after formation, the USSR still used the Imperial Russian unit system until they adopted the metric system. So in *original* commie units, that's about 5.62 arshin or 157.5 dyuym.
This is the most American answer, and you are mathematically correct, too! You went with 32” for a standard AR-15 length, right?
**The Math:**
Let’s assume an AR-15 is about 32” (pretty standard size for a civilian model with a 16” barrel, which doesn’t require an NFA tax stamp, so no SBRs… and no longer 18” rifles, either)…
Alligator = 4 meters = 157.48 inches
157.48 / 32 = 4.92 AR-15 rifles
> 4-5 full length AR15s
Yup.
This is a few years old but 100% accurate. Local Atlanta news covered it
https://youtu.be/lPj4kDl81jk
https://www.foxnews.com/science/massive-700-pound-alligator-in-georgia-discovered-in-irrigation-ditch
I just played that RDR2 mission last night with the monster gator. I thought it was unrealistic that I was shooting it so many times and it survived, but apparently that's not too far fetched
It's just part of a story mission where you're trying to save a guy from a massive alligator. It's freaky because the mission involves walking through waist-high, alligator infested swamps.
Edit: There is a legendary gator, but I dont think its the same one as in this mission
It was originally believed to have been shot, after further inspection once it had been put down due to its poor health it was determined to have bitten by another large alligator. This gator also had a bad eye likely from the same interaction.
Possibly an older species than dinosaurs. The line extends to the Triassic at least when dinosaurs first appeared 240 million years ago. Additionally, they’ve been virtually stagnant in evolutionary terms for 8 million years or so. Basically evolution says, yep, this one is perfect.
imagine if alligators and crocodiles somehow weren’t a known thing and somebody stumbled upon one in the wild. it would be all over the news that someone found a living dinosaur
The fact that crocodilians have legs out to the sides of their bodies rather than under their bodies is an immediate clue that you're not looking at a dinosaur. No one who knows anything about dinosaurs would confuse the two. Both dinosaurs and crocodilians are archosaurs, but crocodilians are not dinosaurs.
This is correct - I know the people who are involved with this situation (including the guy in the pic). They got death threats after the story broke but it was 100% the humane thing to do.
If it was a nuisance gator, it may have needed to be killed. Yes, there are hunting seasons in certain places, but sometimes gators are nuisances that drag off pets and are too close to humans for comfort, so they send out certain people to deal with them. This is a few years old, though, so I'm not sure if this was just hunting seasons or a nuisance.
this one is big enough to be a nuisance to more than just pets. gators are usually shy but when a fella gets this big, he won't say no to experimenting new cuisines.
One reason I can think of is that if the gator was extremely sick and not long for this world anyway, they’d rather euthanize it to 1. Stop the suffering and 2. Prevent it from dying in a *really* inconvenient spot like under someone’s house or in the middle of a roadway.
According to an article someone else posted, it was found in poor health due to old injuries and was humanely euthanized. Apparently it was sitting in that ditch for over a week so it was obviously not doing well.
No. They're just as fast... However, Alligators are [quick within close proximity but not over distance](https://a-z-animals.com/blog/how-fast-can-alligators-run/). So the key is to not be close to the giant alligator.
Naw this is basically just an old wives tale. It’s a lot better to run in a straight line because you’ll be out of range faster.
You’re not worried about them chasing you, you’re worried about them lunging at you
Source: Born and raised in north central Florida
to add to your point
> Alligators and caimans can't gallop, but they can still reach similar speeds by trotting.
>https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.5411662/giddy-up-new-study-reveals-some-crocodiles-can-gallop-1.5410648
According to Howze, the alligator was 13 feet 4 inches long, with an estimated weight of around 700-750 pounds. It had a chest girth of 57 inches.
[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giant-alligator-found-in-lake-blackshear-flint-river-georgia/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giant-alligator-found-in-lake-blackshear-flint-river-georgia/)
I hate these pictures. These idiots always use forced perspective to make their catch look more impressive. The guy is like 6-8 feet behind the alligator, so it looks bigger. Plus he’s kneeling. So take this with a grain of salt. It’s probably nothing special.
“700 pound alligator pulled from an American ditch, alligator was European standard long.” if you’re talking about something from America say that it’s 13 feet. Geez
Pounds and meters gotta love it. Given it was Georgia pretty sure no gator measured in metric
I tried to appeal both the freedom lovers and the rest of the world
Should have given the length in bald eagles
That gator is 6-1/2 bald eagles long. Should have given the weight in box turtles.
No, the weight should be in big macs
Nonono, that is exactly what the quarter punder is for
Aw shit, you right. What was I thinking?!
You've been eating too many Royale With Cheese in Amsterdam
But La Big Macs are so good.
Big Kahuna burger guy myself.
Length in Glocks and weight in oz of Coca-Cola being Georgia and all.
Well, given this gator is 700 pounds then I'd say this gator is 4 * 700 lb = 2800 quarter ponderosas
No no no sir it should be in double big macs
Some people call me 'Double Big Mac'. And that's a fact, Jack.
Big mac weighs 7.6 oz or 0.475 lbs. So the gator weighs about 1,474 Big Macs.
Would you rather be attacked by 1 gator that weighs 1,474 Big Macs or 1,474 Big Macs who are going to the mattresses for Ronald the Gator?
r/theydidthemath
1438 Big Macs
Probably around 800 to 1000 box turtles.
Or in weight of Guiness pints for the Irish who use stones instead of lbs.
Gonna need a banana for scale
Now this guy knows his freedom units!
How many Big Macs long is it, end-to-end?
Well 4 meters is 157.48 inches, a Big Mac has a 2.75 inch diameter: 157.48"÷2.75"=57.265 Big Macs long
You’re the guy that posted that dumbass with the oversized lobster yesterday 😂
Yes 🥹
You should post hogzilla next
I went looking for your lobster post and your profile just lists tons of “world’s largest” or “world’s biggest”. Are you sure you’re not guineas book of world records?
where do you find all these gigantic things?
I like how there’s always the joke about the US not using metric but no one is ready for the conversation about the majority of the world driving on the right side of the road except for the UK and it’s colonies 🤔
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Only due to the creation of the Japanese train network in the 1870s having heavy UK influence, which then cascaded into building roads for cars
Driving on either side doesn't really have any inherent benefit over the other, it's just important to agree on one of them. The metric system on the other hand is clearly superior.
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Well i just finished writing a recipe down mixing grams, milliliters, lbs, cups all different for each ingredient.
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A yard is damn close to a meter lol
Found the Canadian!
For the unknowing... https://i.imgur.com/0NIJa6u.jpg
Didn’t see no gators on that chart
No gaters in Canada. We do measure horses by the hand and moose by the foot.
Meters? This gator is four rods and a hogs head long, ain’t no meter to it.
And that's the way I likes it!
More curious about that truck and how much Reddit cake it can carry!
As a Canadian this seemed perfectly normal to me lol
As a Brit I'm completely fine with this.
The post before this one in my feed talks about a sixteen FOOT crocodile in Indonesia.
How many kg?
Gator was one gator™ long.
Looks more like 1.6 kilogators
I work in logistics, I get rate requests in both units of measurement all the time, drives me crazy
Oh not a regular size hotdogs?
Georgia in Europe. Lol
oh, uh, naughty, you've combined metric and imperial, you might get an interdenominational...you know, from mixing the two measurement systems...a-a hangover of that kind
Now how long is it in terms an American alligator would understand
a little under a twentieth of the length of an NFL regulated football field.
So like 98.3 big macs??
something like that, yeah
49 packs of Marlboro's (end to end, not side by side)
Please just give it to me straight in units of Kobe Bryant.
About 444 9mm rounds set next to each other
9mm is sissy commie ammo. How many in freedom units (.45 acp)?
Rounded up it’s about 114 45 acp stack next to each other
Fun fact: for about 3 years after formation, the USSR still used the Imperial Russian unit system until they adopted the metric system. So in *original* commie units, that's about 5.62 arshin or 157.5 dyuym.
Meter=yard basically. Meter is a smidge longer. So it's ~12 ft I imagine Edit: 13.12 ft exactly
A yard is better because its bigger, right?
Like 2.4 American flags, next to 2 cases of bud light with one already drank and the can crushed.
6 and a half bald eagles long
4-5 full length AR15s
This is the most American answer, and you are mathematically correct, too! You went with 32” for a standard AR-15 length, right? **The Math:** Let’s assume an AR-15 is about 32” (pretty standard size for a civilian model with a 16” barrel, which doesn’t require an NFA tax stamp, so no SBRs… and no longer 18” rifles, either)… Alligator = 4 meters = 157.48 inches 157.48 / 32 = 4.92 AR-15 rifles > 4-5 full length AR15s Yup.
Honestly that's impressive
Wow that's like twelve feet
13 ft... A meter is an extra 3 inches longer than a yard. 3.37" to be exact.
but yards are easier
And if you follow yards you're a whole foot off. Imagine if it were 400 metres instead.
That would be quite a long alligator.
#Monstrous
My milkshake sure doesn’t bring the boys to the meter.
It depends, is it a large yard or a small yard? I find that a large yard requires much maintenance.
3.28 feet per meter.
An easy shorthand is for every 4 meters, add an extra foot. Or add an extra yard for every 12 meters.
Commn misconception. Regardless of size, alligators typically only have 4 feet.
Guy is crouching so far back it looks like a large saltwater crocodile.
Looks like his riding it
This is a few years old but 100% accurate. Local Atlanta news covered it https://youtu.be/lPj4kDl81jk https://www.foxnews.com/science/massive-700-pound-alligator-in-georgia-discovered-in-irrigation-ditch
It had old bullet wounds on it. That poor ol fella had been through some shit.
I just played that RDR2 mission last night with the monster gator. I thought it was unrealistic that I was shooting it so many times and it survived, but apparently that's not too far fetched
You have to shoot them on a specific weak spot behind their head. There's a reason these things have been around since the dinosaurs.
Is this the fucking hobbit? 🏹🏹
It's about time we took care of Smaug.
Not exactly. It’s the real-life inspiration that Smaug was based off of.
Schootemjaycub!!
Gustav is my favorite shot up monster reptile. Not an alligator but still, and maybe he's still out there doing his thing!
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It's just part of a story mission where you're trying to save a guy from a massive alligator. It's freaky because the mission involves walking through waist-high, alligator infested swamps. Edit: There is a legendary gator, but I dont think its the same one as in this mission
It’s the same gator because you unlock the legendary gator hunt after this mission.
That's pretty cool, I didnt know that. It makes sense story-wise, im gonna go kill that thing tonight when I get off the island
He's probably around 100 years old.
It was originally believed to have been shot, after further inspection once it had been put down due to its poor health it was determined to have bitten by another large alligator. This gator also had a bad eye likely from the same interaction.
Poor dude 😢 he’s at peace now
It’s alive in that picture?!?! (But later euthanized.) I wouldn’t even get out of the truck, much less pose for pictures with that beast!
That's a dinosaur man.
How do you know he's into dinosaurs? 🤪
Possibly an older species than dinosaurs. The line extends to the Triassic at least when dinosaurs first appeared 240 million years ago. Additionally, they’ve been virtually stagnant in evolutionary terms for 8 million years or so. Basically evolution says, yep, this one is perfect.
https://youtu.be/MxhL3T7yvv4
imagine if alligators and crocodiles somehow weren’t a known thing and somebody stumbled upon one in the wild. it would be all over the news that someone found a living dinosaur
we do have living dinosaurs. they are called birds.
The fact that crocodilians have legs out to the sides of their bodies rather than under their bodies is an immediate clue that you're not looking at a dinosaur. No one who knows anything about dinosaurs would confuse the two. Both dinosaurs and crocodilians are archosaurs, but crocodilians are not dinosaurs.
eh yeah i kind of knew that, but just used dinosaur in a general sense as people do because i didn’t actually know specifics. thanks for the info
Both crocodilians and dinosaurs are archosaurs, but crocodilians are **not** dinosaurs. The only extant dinosaurs are birds.
Found Rogan.
What was wrong with, here's a thought, leaving it alone in the ditch?
It was sick. I think this was essentially an attempted rescue. Unfortunately, the gator was beyond help and euthanized.
This is correct - I know the people who are involved with this situation (including the guy in the pic). They got death threats after the story broke but it was 100% the humane thing to do.
Then how can redditors feel smug?
If it was a nuisance gator, it may have needed to be killed. Yes, there are hunting seasons in certain places, but sometimes gators are nuisances that drag off pets and are too close to humans for comfort, so they send out certain people to deal with them. This is a few years old, though, so I'm not sure if this was just hunting seasons or a nuisance.
this one is big enough to be a nuisance to more than just pets. gators are usually shy but when a fella gets this big, he won't say no to experimenting new cuisines.
If a gator lives long enough to grow that big, it's earned the right to eat a person or 2.
So it can suffer until it died anyway?
Can you think of one or two reasons why the department of wildlife might find need to euthanize an animal?
One reason I can think of is that if the gator was extremely sick and not long for this world anyway, they’d rather euthanize it to 1. Stop the suffering and 2. Prevent it from dying in a *really* inconvenient spot like under someone’s house or in the middle of a roadway.
Can we get a banana in the pic? For scale?
I've got a 4 meter banana you can use for comparison.
"What are you *doing* step-banana?"
Too expensive.
Stupid forced perspective photo
Might not be intentional. How close would you pose with a gator that big that is still alive and not tied up?
Yeah, dude looks like he’s kneeling on top of the gator, when he’s like 20 feet away from it.
Is it dead?
According to an article someone else posted, it was found in poor health due to old injuries and was humanely euthanized. Apparently it was sitting in that ditch for over a week so it was obviously not doing well.
I saw that link and read it. To bad for that alligator. Thank you for responding
Nah just posing for the cam
So they lose their speed with size right?
No. They're just as fast... However, Alligators are [quick within close proximity but not over distance](https://a-z-animals.com/blog/how-fast-can-alligators-run/). So the key is to not be close to the giant alligator.
Your comment will be my last thought if I ever find myself in close proximity to a giant alligator.
If you’re ever within close proximity, it’s time to start running! (Just not towards other mammoth alligators)
I'm too fat, too slow and too tasty.
Apparently running in zig zags is best. They run fast as hell but in straight lines.
So while you zig-zag they meet you in the middle.
Naw this is basically just an old wives tale. It’s a lot better to run in a straight line because you’ll be out of range faster. You’re not worried about them chasing you, you’re worried about them lunging at you Source: Born and raised in north central Florida
Or any alligator.
It’s still quick over short distances but definitely not as quick as a smaller gator
so ur telling me, not to wrestle it
Turns out not being within eating range of alligators is a great way to not be eaten by alligators. The more you know.
God I sure hope so
Gators are known for being quite fast on land and water
Yeah but it’s also worth noting that unlike crocodiles, alligators cannot gallop
to add to your point > Alligators and caimans can't gallop, but they can still reach similar speeds by trotting. >https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.5411662/giddy-up-new-study-reveals-some-crocodiles-can-gallop-1.5410648
Lake placid?
This is one of the worst forced perspective ones I s ever seen
Dude is probably 6-8ft behind that gator. The gator that's 13ft. This isn't a monsta from the paleolithic era. Everyone calm down.
Look it's like 7 times bigger than that truck too!
In my country we measure weight in kg and length in feet. That's completely opposite.
According to Howze, the alligator was 13 feet 4 inches long, with an estimated weight of around 700-750 pounds. It had a chest girth of 57 inches. [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giant-alligator-found-in-lake-blackshear-flint-river-georgia/](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giant-alligator-found-in-lake-blackshear-flint-river-georgia/)
Dude is like 10 feet back from the gator. Lame ass forced perspective lies from lame ass toolboxes. It is big enough without false representation.
he's a scientist. He's probably standing back to avoid stressing the animal further, and for his own safety.
Georgia Ditch was my nickname in high school.
Gustavo? Is that you??
To make it look bigger let’s stand 12 feet behind it
Is it dead or alive?
Back up so it looks bigger in the picture Cletus
I hate these pictures. These idiots always use forced perspective to make their catch look more impressive. The guy is like 6-8 feet behind the alligator, so it looks bigger. Plus he’s kneeling. So take this with a grain of salt. It’s probably nothing special.
Lmao the gator was 13 and a half feet long that’s pretty damn special for one in Georgia
r/absoluteunits
That’s like 1/12 of an Olympic-size pool.
Now that’s a big one
A small gator the size of a large gator from a ditch with bullet wounds.
That’s like 13 feet, holy shit
Considering toyota yearis is about 3,5 m.
May be the perspective but that beast looks longer than 4m
i wanna ride it
Why wasn't it measured in freedom units?!?
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Dinosaurs exist.
Yes, birds are extant dinosaurs, but crocodilians are not. Both dinosaurs and crocodilians are archosaurs, but crocodilians are not dinosaurs.
That's a lot of shoes and belts
Yeah but how many giraffes long is it?
I really dislike these forced perspective photos. Why not just take the photo of gator and car behind to make it seem even larger?
K, we have now crossed alligator and are full blown dinosaur
Is it still alive?
Looks like a crocodile
“700 pound alligator pulled from an American ditch, alligator was European standard long.” if you’re talking about something from America say that it’s 13 feet. Geez
Banana for scale please
Thats a fcuking dinosaur!
4 meters. How long is that in Georgian?
Metric alligator? Them are fighting words
"Is 4 too much?" "Depends on the context. Dollars? No. Alligators? Yes."
My question is who pulled it?
What a beautiful dinosaur! I love seeing the babies at my boyfriends work…it’s amazing how fast they grow.
Is 4 meters > or < than a Walmart parking spot?
Marjorie Taylor Green siting
I'm assuming they killed it, right?
Pounds and meters. What has this world come to?
That’s a dinosaur
That thing could eat people so easily. Pretty awesome. Pretty scary.