British-Born Tres and Janette Ammerman Catch Record-Breaking Alligator In Florida | Strange News | Sky News

A British-born family whose hobby is alligator trapping has broken the Florida state record after landing a monster reptile on Halloween.

Florida's longest alligator

The hunters hope to sell the record-breaking alligator to a taxidermist



Yorkshire-born Tres Ammerman caught the 14ft, 3.5in male alligator in Florida's Lake Washington.

The catch broke the previous official state length record set in 1997 by nearly 3in.

Mr Ammerman's wife, Janette, said it is very rare to seen an alligator over 14ft long.

"This really is the longest one that has ever been caught," she told the Orlando Sentinel.

Mr Ammerman was in a boat with two other trappers on October 31 when he spotted the alligator.

The previous record holder was apparently sold for $1,000 a foot... so my husband is going to keep his options open to see what sort of deal we can do with this big boy

Janette Ammerman, the alligator hunter's wife



"I knew he was a giant 'gator when we saw his head," Mr Ammerman said.

The boat crew harpooned the alligator twice and although it attempted to swim away they were able to pull it alongside the boat.

"He was running, jumping, rolling, fighting and trying to bite up on my boat... I was thinking we got Godzilla here," Mr Ammerman said.

His nephew on board the boat, TJ Schause, said the reptile was so large they had to tow it.

In all it took them more than two hours to land the alligator before putting it in a tarpaulin filled with ice in Mr Ammerman's garage.

Arnold Brunell, a Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission biologist who inspected the alligator, confirmed it broke the state record for length, but not weight.

Tres Ammerman and alligator, courtesy of My Fox Orlando.

Registered nurse Tres Ammerman sits atop his alligator

The deadly catch weighed in at a whopping 654 lbs.

"We haven't decided what we are going to do with him yet, probably sell him," Mrs Ammerman said.

"The previous record holder was apparently sold for $1,000 a foot, back in 1997 or '98, so my husband is going to keep his options open to see what sort of deal we can do with this big boy."

With taxidermists willing to pay more than £8,000 for the beast Mr Ammerman, who is a registered nurse, is hoping for a big cheque.

"I feel like I hit the lottery. I do, it's just amazing," he told Fox News.

Doctor Invented Anti-Rape Female Condom, Rape-Ex

Dr. Sonnet Ehler, a South African doctor, invented a female condom to help combat rape in the most painful way possible. The condom has a jagged hooked that latches on to a man’s penis during penetration.

Dr. Ehler was inspired to design this condom when she was 20. She we was on call when a rape victim with a lifeless look to her eye came into the hospital and muttered to her – “If only I had teeth down there.”

40 years Later Dr. Ehler designed the Rape-Ex, a jagged teeth-like condom that hooks on to the rapist penis upon penetrating.

Dr. Ehler explains the effects of the condom:

“It hurts, he cannot pee and walk when it’s on, if he tries to remove it, it will clasp even tighter… however, it doesn’t break the skin, and there’s no danger of fluid exposure.”

Dr. Ehler sold her car and some of her belongings to launch this project and distributed around 300,000 condoms to local areas in South Africa where the World Cup was being held.

Dr. Ehler explained more:Rape

“I consulted engineers, gynecologists and psychologists to help in the design and make sure it was safe… the ideal situation would be for a woman to wear this when she’s going out on some kind of blind date … or to an area she’s not comfortable with,”

The Doctor also wanted to get into minds of rapist to find out what motivates them, and what they think would prevent them from committing this horrific crime. So she visited a prison and spoke to convicted inmatesof rape crimes.

“I went into prisons, and I spoke to the rapists themselves. Most of them said to me that it would be such a surprise factor… I said ‘and will you look for Rape-aXe beforehand?’ And they said no because it’s a hit and run, you’ve got to be quick and get away from the scene.”

Many critics of this condom has fear that  men will be brutal to women and put physical hurt on them if they know that this device is stuck to their penis. But Dr. Ehler thinks this device would be a good tool and think that this can help females escape from the rape victim faster.

“The men are violent already, so I cannot make them more violent with Rape-aXe. And another thing is if they kill their victim, he will be in double trouble. Because he’s tagged, he cannot remove it, he’s got to go to a hospital, and then he’s identified. So now at least he’ll be up for rape, and not for murder and rape.”

“The moment he looks down – ‘what happened to me?’ – that gives you time to jump up and run. He cannot run after you. You must remember that it’s attached to the penis during erection, and the penis wants to go back to normal, and it can’t because it’s almost like a splint that’s on it now. He cannot urinate, because if he pulls the tip to cut that off so that he can urinate, he pulls the hooks deeper into his body.”

I personally believe that this is a good design, its not a complete stop to preventing rape crimes, but it’s a step in the right direct. If you know there is a possible to get your penis trapped in a painful device if you have sex with someone, would you? I think not.