They used my living room, my son's room, the garage and the filming sometimes lasted until 2 am. They turned my house into a Christmas wonderland. My kids, Corey and Ryan, loved it. The people were wonderful.

There's an intrinsic value. We don't want this particular species to become extinct. This is one more species unique to Florida that would be gone.

We were moving toward making it more of a recreational opportunity than a commercial one. Now there really aren't any shortages of alligators -- we're well past the endangered species time, so we're ready to expand.

This is not an unusual occurrence. We've had accidents in that area before. It does happen.

It would appear that the reserves are running out. Most of the people said they were living on reserves, and that was getting down to the last three or four days.

I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.