It doesn't look like it just finished eating. It looks like it's been injured and is bleeding.

Alex-
I did a Google translation of the site with the photo, and it reads (badly):

"A dead alligator was because of the entrance the "roofridge Presbyterian Church". The national guard had shot the animal."

Are you sure it's not fake? The alligator looks as if it was resized, and the lighting seems discontinuous, also.

I like the title of the article: 'Get the fuck out of here'

('scuse the language, but that's what it says!)

The title is apparently a direct quote from a local policeman (responding to the reporter's interview request).

I was going to say the photo doesn't look fake, but the gator does look dead.
Then I looked at the accompanying article and saw that that's exactly what it says. The National Guard apparently shot the animal and then, for some incomprehensible reason, left it in the entrance area of the First Prebyterian Church.

But, Alex, the article says this happened in Gulfport, Mississippi, not New Orleans.

(P.S. An onscreen ad for "alligator sausage and meat" shows up when I look at this post.)

I've only heard news reports of two people being bitten by alligators in N.O. recently, but both survived.

The Nat'l Gd probably doesn't have the man power to start moving alligator bodies. They're probably more worried about the human bodies.

The alligator problem is a lot more prevalent than what is being reported. Government officials and the press don't feel that it would be appropriate to further antagonize victim's families with the news that some of their dead relatives are being eaten by alligators before their bodies can be recovered.

The only thing gators are good for are belts and boots.

hunter said: "The only thing gators are good for are belts and boots."

don't forget handbags!

Maegan, if the NG has enough manpower (or womanpower, whichever it was) to drag the gator into the church, it should have enough to drag it back out again.

Hunter: Not true. I had some delicious gator gumbo not long ago.

Jorge: Since disposal of cadavers has been reported as a serious problem in the storm-hit areas, alligators consuming them may be a solution, not another problem.

Hunter: It's pretty darn good battered and fried too...

uhm Garry..these are folks' family members...not Cadvers...dang. A decent burial is a solution..not an aligator feed fest!

Big Gary, to clarify: this church in Gulfport is in my denomination so I get the news bulletins. No one dragged the alligator anywhere: the NG shot the alligator inside the church! The damage to the church's exterior walls made it no problem for the alligator to get in.

The Gators eating the bodies is really a good thing.I know that sounds harsh,but think about it for a moment..................................how long is it going to take to search through all that trash just to find dead people.shouldn't they be more worried about the people still alive.It really is a tough decicion, but you have to help the ones you can before anything else.

p.s. don't think of me as a bad person' but you have to look at this situation logically. People are dieing everday.Once your dead it really doesn't matter wear your body is.All you can do is hope you will make it to heaven.there are people right now without a place to live and we are worried about alligators eating dead bodies.COME ON PEOPLEget a grip and worry about important stuff.

If anyone can send me pictures from new orleans, I would appreciate it. I'm doing a report on alligators and how they were affected by Katrina.

Ya'll are crazy! I'm so glad I don't live there cause that was just wrong to harm a animal like that when there was no one around in the first place. Thoes animals have no recall on what we are and all they try and do is eat and live on our earth and just cause we are scared of it we kill it. How about leave it alone or move it back to its natural place of living. In this casue of the storm hitting there he probably had no clue were he was at. Just a shame on how people kill cause they are scared don't go near it and nothing will happen.

Too NANI, you're a moron. Gators are eating machines. Yes let's leave it alone and let it eat a kid or two before we kill it. Wake up. Take your peta aspirations and stuff them.

enlarge the photo and look to the upper left. It looks like a hand under the debris!!!

I think it is all discusting,, i am scared of them, but i wouldn't kill them, and i don't think i would like it much if one of my family members were out there somewhere and we never found a body,,, just the thought of a gator eating one of my family is unthinkable.

the picture is a fake, it was taken almost 2 years ago, if you notice, those are not african americans standing next to it, those are africans, it was taken in an african country and it was around 18 feet long, same picture was in the paper 2 years ago

I believe this probably did come out of Gulfport, as I recall having heard about this on a few occasions.

To clarify, I think that this photograph is real. I think the alligator was shot dead. And I think that shooting it was the RIGHT choice, because it was an extreme danger to the public, and no one was around who could safely transport the creature to a better location. Had the gator been allowed to roam the area, it could well have injured or killed anyone, including a child.

Sadly, many loose wild animals (and domestic animals) had to be destroyed because of the danger they posed to the public at that time.

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