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hitler shot in tampa

TBHC permalink | categories: environment, incredible, otd, tampa
by TBHC @ 10:35 am

65 years ago…

May 6, 1941 – A snorting, seven-foot alligator nicknamed “Hitler” by a crowd of 400 Tampans ties up traffic at 13th and Twiggs Street (the Channelside area) after crawling out of the Estuary channel. The alligator is shot by a police officer after repeated attempts to subdue the animal fail.

Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.

Tags: environment, incredible, on this day, tampa

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One Response to “hitler shot in tampa”

Fred Says:
May 6th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Today it would be named “Rhonda”.

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