I'm in sort of a spot when it comes to Charlie. He's been harassed a good deal. I've seen people throw rocks and bottles at him. One crazy dude tried to run him over with a lawnmower. (I had a few words with him in private afterward.) A couple of kids attempted recently to fish him out of the lake using a whole chicken fastened to a giant hook tied to a rope.
I have evidence of these misdeeds on film, which are illegal, of course.
However, if I call Fish and Wildlife to alert them of the problem, all someone has to say is that the gator is a danger to the community, and Charlie will be trapped and killed. (Relocation is never an option.) It takes only one person to lodge a complaint (based mostly upon irrational fear) before the gator is deemed a nuisance.
As far as I know, nobody has complained about Charlie, but I'm pretty sure his days are numbered. He's a medium-sized alligator, about eight feet long, very healthy it seems, with beautiful coloring and skin and hardly a mark on him anywhere. He's as perfect an animal as I've ever seen, relatively unchanged by almost one hundred million years of evolution.
Here's another shot of him, near the lake where the bank slopes upward: