Woman hunter bags 465 kg alligator in US

Woman hunter bags 1000lb alligator - 13 feet long

This turned into a controversy. It took two hours to secure the creature, and their .22-caliber gun was too small to kill it, so Maryellen had to sever its spinal cord with a knife. Somehow the story of the small lady triumphing over a giant reptile was quickly overtaken on the Internet by posters slamming her for a sick act of cruelty against an innocent animal.