July 28, 2025 • 6 mins
"What would you do if you opened your back door, coffee in hand… and saw an alligator staring back at you?"In this wildly entertaining episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray take listeners on a hilarious and jaw-dropping journey through one of the most bizarre Florida news stories you’ll ever hear. It starts with a man beating an alligator with a golf club over a lost fishing lure—and spirals into a tale of dismemberment, gator cuisine, and stolen archaeological artifacts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Featuring veteran news anchor Katie fun tweets.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Man Florida always gives us some good stories. Well, I
don't know this is a good story. It's just kind
of wild. Something we don't deal with, and we might
take that for granted very few times in your life. Ben,
will you wake up, maybe you grab your morning coffee
and you do what I like to imagine that men
have always done for many years. Stare out their back
(00:32):
door into let a big fart handled in the coffee. Yeah,
looking at today, Oh my god, there's a there's an
alligator on the back porch. We don't deal with that often,
and we should be more thankful. But in uh, in Florida,
they deal with this often, inhabits in fact daily.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
And this is a crazy story from the news in Florida.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I mean in Lake County is accused of beating an
alligator with a golf club and witnesses.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Okay, I'm a pretty good start, right, I mean, not
the alligator.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
But beating an alligator with the golf club.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, is that illegal? It feels illegal? Well, what if
the what if the alligator was going to eat you?
And it was it was there to eat you or
your pets, and it claimed self defense. Can't you defend
your your domicile? That were you on his territory though?
Oh as you break into the alligator's den.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I've been witnesses say it was all over a lost
fishing lore. Well, she was healing Crumbleholme talked with a
woman who says she saw it happen.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
First of all, if you're an outdoors man, I can't
imagine there's a better segment for you. We're talking fishing golf.
If you love the outdoors, this was h I'd like
to just say, if you're with the best pro shops
or Cabella's, we love to sponsor this segment The Outdoors
Report that the f W Outdoors Report, with Ben and
Derek calling that that shows yeah, the Outdoor Report.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
People who live in this part of Montford tell us
laka Papka, here is Phil with gaiters And according to
a report from law enforcement, that gator was not only beaten,
it was dismembered that evil Kimberly Strickland lives across from
a canal.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Andy was dogging like this was she crying or was she?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Did she have a was Pete Rose's sister. Yet we
wearing sabrevo you.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Not only beaten, it was dismembered.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
You don't how to be that evil.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Kimberly Strickland lives across from a canal in Montford that
feeds into Lake a Popka. She said a man was
fishing in the canal earlier this month when she heard
him shouting about a gator. According to an arrest report
from Florida Fish and Wildlife, twenty eight year old Hunter
Crumbo admitted to catching the gater and beating it with
(02:45):
a golf.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Club and then I got going stop stop.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Strickland says. Next he brought it onto her property. On
the same night the incident happened, another woman in the
neighborhood reported to law enforcement that a different man asked
her how to clean up an alligator because he had
been thinking about eating one. It's someone had beaten.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
This story is all over the map now.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
So another guy came to another person said, you know
how to clean it?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I think I'm gonna eat the one that got clean?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
A gator.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
One just rolled up on my like a dead one
just rolled up.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Why would you just ask a stranger how to gut
and clean a gator to eat it.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Christ you go to Florida a lot? Did Did you
talk to strangers all the time there?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
I do not talk to strangers in Florida. I love Florida, though,
I will say that. And I've also never seen a
gator while I'm there, and like, from what I know,
like those gators aren't gonna hurt you. This is like
most wildlife. They are not gonna hurt you unless you
come after them for some time.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Interesting in their apartment, he was fishing in the canal,
So it's kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I've seen movies about gators attacking people totally real Placid.
What's that movie about the floods of New Orleans and
there's gators loose everywhere and now the giant gators are
eating everyone. Did you ever see that?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Was it?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Lake Paid?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
To me, that was a documentary I'll have to look at.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I think now I personally am not overly scared of
a gator because they really are only straight line beasts,
you know, And I think they run out of gas
pretty quick and just kind of get out of their
periphery vision, you know. So I've never been that worried.
Don't get close and put your hand right, yeah, because
it'll do a death roll on you. But if one
(04:24):
has rabies and it's foaming at the mouth with its
razor sharp teeth, or it has the tasty human flesh
and only yearns for that. Moving forward to where's that movie?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Well, yeah, and don't if you see the one that
comes up and he just looks like a normal salesman
and he's knocking on your door, yeah, and telling you
about it.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
He would like to trim your trees or hop up
on your raid. Don't do that, By the way, I
see proofing would be the way to go with that.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I texted you a picture of an animal in the
wild today, the horniest whale.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I've ever seen him all life. I saw it, and
in fact, I saw it during the middle of one
of our segments, when I shouldn't have been looking at
my phone.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
You're seeing that.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
The size of this thing, I'm good, it is so disturbing. Yeah,
free Willie, Free Willy, Indeed he whizz whales. Well, somebody
sends you an animal dong and you don't even respond.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Gosh.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Again, it was in the middle of the segment when
I saw it. Yeah, okay, So again to pick this up.
We got derailed for a minute. Other guy asked, stranger,
do you know how to clean it? I want to
eat the beaten alligator.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The assault on the gator didn't end with the clubbet.
According to the arrest report, somewhat identified as two different
people by witnesses, mutilated the gator. Florida Fision Wildlife arrested
Crumbo on July sixteenth, the second time the agency arrested
him this year. He was sentenced to probation earlier this
month after being charged with stealing artifacts from an archaeological site.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Along short, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
The story is incredible, stealing artifacts, so many pluck, twists
and turns.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
That's if we ever a secret, gonna go to jail though,
you're stealing artifacts from archaeological hold on, she got the
Arowin handle there she loves artifacts.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Uh, that's enough. Good job, incredible story, great audio,
Are you excited?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Featuring veteran news anchor Katie fun tweets.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Man Florida always gives us some good stories. Well, I
don't know this is a good story. It's just kind
of wild. Something we don't deal with, and we might
take that for granted very few times in your life. Ben,
will you wake up, maybe you grab your morning coffee
and you do what I like to imagine that men
have always done for many years. Stare out their back
(00:32):
door into let a big fart handled in the coffee. Yeah,
looking at today, Oh my god, there's a there's an
alligator on the back porch. We don't deal with that often,
and we should be more thankful. But in uh, in Florida,
they deal with this often, inhabits in fact daily.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
And this is a crazy story from the news in Florida.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I mean in Lake County is accused of beating an
alligator with a golf club and witnesses.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Okay, I'm a pretty good start, right, I mean, not
the alligator.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
But beating an alligator with the golf club.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, is that illegal? It feels illegal? Well, what if
the what if the alligator was going to eat you?
And it was it was there to eat you or
your pets, and it claimed self defense. Can't you defend
your your domicile? That were you on his territory though?
Oh as you break into the alligator's den.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I've been witnesses say it was all over a lost
fishing lore. Well, she was healing Crumbleholme talked with a
woman who says she saw it happen.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
First of all, if you're an outdoors man, I can't
imagine there's a better segment for you. We're talking fishing golf.
If you love the outdoors, this was h I'd like
to just say, if you're with the best pro shops
or Cabella's, we love to sponsor this segment The Outdoors
Report that the f W Outdoors Report, with Ben and
Derek calling that that shows yeah, the Outdoor Report.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
People who live in this part of Montford tell us
laka Papka, here is Phil with gaiters And according to
a report from law enforcement, that gator was not only beaten,
it was dismembered that evil Kimberly Strickland lives across from
a canal.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Andy was dogging like this was she crying or was she?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Did she have a was Pete Rose's sister. Yet we
wearing sabrevo you.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Not only beaten, it was dismembered.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
You don't how to be that evil.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Kimberly Strickland lives across from a canal in Montford that
feeds into Lake a Popka. She said a man was
fishing in the canal earlier this month when she heard
him shouting about a gator. According to an arrest report
from Florida Fish and Wildlife, twenty eight year old Hunter
Crumbo admitted to catching the gater and beating it with
(02:45):
a golf.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Club and then I got going stop stop.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Strickland says. Next he brought it onto her property. On
the same night the incident happened, another woman in the
neighborhood reported to law enforcement that a different man asked
her how to clean up an alligator because he had
been thinking about eating one. It's someone had beaten.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
This story is all over the map now.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
So another guy came to another person said, you know
how to clean it?
Speaker 5 (03:10):
I think I'm gonna eat the one that got clean?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
A gator.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
One just rolled up on my like a dead one
just rolled up.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Why would you just ask a stranger how to gut
and clean a gator to eat it.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Christ you go to Florida a lot? Did Did you
talk to strangers all the time there?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:25):
I do not talk to strangers in Florida. I love Florida, though,
I will say that. And I've also never seen a
gator while I'm there, and like, from what I know,
like those gators aren't gonna hurt you. This is like
most wildlife. They are not gonna hurt you unless you
come after them for some time.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Interesting in their apartment, he was fishing in the canal,
So it's kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I've seen movies about gators attacking people totally real Placid.
What's that movie about the floods of New Orleans and
there's gators loose everywhere and now the giant gators are
eating everyone. Did you ever see that?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Was it?
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Lake Paid?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Maybe?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:01):
To me, that was a documentary I'll have to look at.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I think now I personally am not overly scared of
a gator because they really are only straight line beasts,
you know, And I think they run out of gas
pretty quick and just kind of get out of their
periphery vision, you know. So I've never been that worried.
Don't get close and put your hand right, yeah, because
it'll do a death roll on you. But if one
(04:24):
has rabies and it's foaming at the mouth with its
razor sharp teeth, or it has the tasty human flesh
and only yearns for that. Moving forward to where's that movie?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Well, yeah, and don't if you see the one that
comes up and he just looks like a normal salesman
and he's knocking on your door, yeah, and telling you
about it.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
He would like to trim your trees or hop up
on your raid. Don't do that, By the way, I
see proofing would be the way to go with that.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I texted you a picture of an animal in the
wild today, the horniest whale.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I've ever seen him all life. I saw it, and
in fact, I saw it during the middle of one
of our segments, when I shouldn't have been looking at
my phone.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
You're seeing that.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
The size of this thing, I'm good, it is so disturbing. Yeah,
free Willie, Free Willy, Indeed he whizz whales. Well, somebody
sends you an animal dong and you don't even respond.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
Gosh.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Again, it was in the middle of the segment when
I saw it. Yeah, okay, So again to pick this up.
We got derailed for a minute. Other guy asked, stranger,
do you know how to clean it? I want to
eat the beaten alligator.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The assault on the gator didn't end with the clubbet.
According to the arrest report, somewhat identified as two different
people by witnesses, mutilated the gator. Florida Fision Wildlife arrested
Crumbo on July sixteenth, the second time the agency arrested
him this year. He was sentenced to probation earlier this
month after being charged with stealing artifacts from an archaeological site.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Along short, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
The story is incredible, stealing artifacts, so many pluck, twists
and turns.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
That's if we ever a secret, gonna go to jail though,
you're stealing artifacts from archaeological hold on, she got the
Arowin handle there she loves artifacts.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Uh, that's enough. Good job, incredible story, great audio,
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