Man Snaps Photo of Giant Lizard On Wall of His House

Smh… oh wow. This is wild, even the little small ones creep me out. So I can’t imagine, seeing this up close and personal.

I find small lizards on my California property all the time, but nothing like this! I feel sorry for the critter. It was probably just as terrified as the homeowner.

Dafuq?!
Nah mam’!

Nasty!!! ? I wonder how to evict that creature…

Selling the house….furnished, with chicken cooking in the oven and clothes in the dryer.

WATT does this fuggah eat? Sheesh! *bams*

*jacked ny tim es

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear
a Second Amendment challenge to a Chicago suburb’s ordinance that
banned semiautomatic assault weapons and large-capacity magazines.

The
decision not to hear the case has no precedential force, but was
nonetheless part of a series of signals from the Supreme Court giving at
least tacit approval to even quite strict gun control laws in states
and localities that choose to enact them.

“The
justices don’t reveal their reasons for denying review, but one thing
is clear,” said Adam Winkler, a law professor at the University of
California, Los Angeles. “The justices certainly aren’t eager to take up
a Second Amendment case these days.”

“One has to wonder,” he said, “if the Supreme Court is having second thoughts about the Second Amendment.”

The court will sooner or later return to the subject of the scope of the Second Amendment right first recognized in 2008 in District
of Columbia v. Heller, which struck down parts of an exceptionally
strict local law that barred keeping guns in the home for self-defense.
But the justices do not seem eager to do so even as the nation is in
the midst of a sharp debate over gun control in the wake of shooting
rampages in San Bernardino, Calif., and across the nation.

In
dissent on Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Antonin
Scalia, accused the court of abdicating its responsibility to enforce
the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. (Justice Scalia wrote
the majority opinion in the Heller case, which was decided by a 5 to 4
vote.)

“Roughly
five million Americans own AR-style semiautomatic rifles,” Justice
Thomas wrote, referring, he said, to “modern sporting rifles.”

“The
overwhelming majority of citizens who own and use such rifles do so for
lawful purposes, including self-defense and target shooting,” Justice
Thomas wrote. “Under our precedents, that is all that is needed for
citizens to have a right under the Second Amendment to keep such
weapons.”

Chuck Michel, president of the California Rifle and Pistol Association, said the dissent made powerful points.

“It
is only a matter of time,” he said, “before the Supreme Court takes a
case, sets things straight, and properly subjects this and similar
unconstitutional laws to renewed challenge.”

Gun
control advocates heard a different message. “The American people have
had enough of gun violence and, with the exception of Justices Thomas
and Scalia, in this case, the Supreme Court sided with them,” said Dan
Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Monday’s case, Friedman v. City of Highland Park, No. 15-133, concerned an ordinance in Highland Park, Ill. It was enacted in 2013.

“Sandy Hook had just happened,” Nancy R. Rotering, the city’s mayor,
recalled on Monday, referring to the mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn.,
elementary school. “It was a common-sense step to reduce gun violence
and to protect our children and our community.”

The
ordinance banned some weapons by name, including AR-15s and AK-47s.
More generally, it prohibited possession of what it called assault
weapons, defining them as semiautomatic guns that can accept
large-capacity magazines and have features like a grip for the
nontrigger hand. Large-capacity magazines, the ordinance said, are those
that can accept more than 10 rounds. A federal assault weapons ban,
including a prohibition on high-capacity magazines, expired in 2004.

In
the Heller case in 2008, the Supreme Court found for the first time
that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to bear arms.
In 2010, the court extended the principle to state and local governments.

The
Highland Park ordinance was drafted with those cases in mind, said
Steven M. Elrod, a lawyer for the city and the author of the law. “The
rights secured by the Second Amendment are not unlimited,” he said.

Since
2010, the Supreme Court has turned away appeals in any number of Second
Amendment challenges to gun control laws. Monday’s move was telling,
Professor Winkler said.

“The
court’s action will encourage gun control advocates to push for bans on
assault weapons,” he said. “This is one of the items at the top of the
gun control agenda. Now advocates have less to fear from the courts on
this issue.”

The
ordinance was challenged by the Illinois State Rifle Association and
Dr. Arie S. Friedman, who at his home had kept guns and magazines for
self-defense that were banned by the ordinance. The term “assault
weapons,” they told the justices, “is an imaginary and pejorative category.”

The
Illinois rifle group and Dr. Friedman urged the Supreme Court to
address what they called “the lower courts’ massive resistance to Heller
and their refusal to treat Second Amendment rights as deserving respect
equal to other constitutional rights.”

A supporting brief
filed by 24 states said the ordinance “bans many commonly used firearms
and the standard capacity magazines for many popular firearms.”

In April, a divided three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Chicago, upheld the Highland Park ordinance.

On
the one hand, Judge Frank H. Easterbrook wrote for the majority,
“assault weapons can be beneficial for self?defense because they are
lighter than many rifles and less dangerous per shot than large?caliber
pistols or revolvers.” He added that “householders too frightened or
infirm to aim carefully may be able to wield them more effectively than
the pistols James Bond preferred.”

“But
assault weapons with large?capacity magazines can fire more shots,
faster, and thus can be more dangerous in aggregate,” he continued. “Why
else are they the weapons of choice in mass shootings?

Justice
Thomas rejected that reasoning. In general, he said, the courts have
been treating the Second Amendment as a second-class citizen
notwithstanding the pathbreaking decisions in 2008 and 2010.

“Despite
these holdings, several courts of appeals — including the Court of
Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in the decision below — have upheld
categorical bans on firearms that millions of Americans commonly own for
lawful purposes,” he wrote. “Because noncompliance with our Second
Amendment precedents warrants this court’s attention as much as any of
our precedents, I would grant certiorari” — review — “in this case.”

Lizard my foot!!!!!!!!! That there is a baby gator…lmbo!!!!! Take a pic no way, he can have the shed, house and everything in there because I’m out!

I agree with you… BUT I know some hunters that have the rifles with the “banana clips” -that holds like 20-25 shots/rounds (or however you say it)

ION get it either *sighs*

LMAO! ?

Probably small cars!

I would die… Looks like an alligator. ?

It’s time to move if I see that thing. I’m used to the tiny geckos and garden lizards we have in Florida, that thing is a monster.

Good evening…Meme,let me tell you…they would’ve had to straight sedate me to calm me.and its unsaid me EVER going out back of my house is so traumatizing…we gotta move!!!

They can have all the jewlleys and toilet paper left behind too ?

word

Bwahahaha! Lawd! Tears. Real tears are running down my face. ?

nooooo, jesus

I agree wholeheartedly then. Salts nothing would work lol

Is it dangerous? My scary tail would’ve just been coming to! ?

Saw this story on Bossip not 2 long ago

hell naw, Forget Australia

Why I logged in just because I can imagined how you really said this…

that there is a monitor lizard. Once they reached the size where their natural enemies are reduced they grow like hell. My dogs tend to kill them in our back yard during the summer. But yeah that one is pretty big.