A little local color from our weekly Concordia Sentinel:

Alligator causes roadblock in parish

Motorists using highway 565 two miles south of Wildsville Monday morning came upon an unusual road block.

An 11-foot, 10-inch alligator lay dead in the road before officers with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries were able to remove the massive reptile.

The alligator had been shot.

Wildsville is fifteen or twenty miles from our little burg, Vidalia, LA.