Posted on 07/06/2019 12:24:35 AM PDT by ETL
A "badly decomposed" body was discovered in a Florida lake Thursday, according to police, with witnesses claiming they saw a congregation of alligators dragging it into the water.
The body was found in Lake Maggiore’s mangroves in St. Petersburg at around 8 a.m., according to reports.
“We’re unable to tell anything about it — gender or race or anything,” St. Petersburg police spokeswoman Yolanda Fernandez said.
Otis Crawford and his partner Patricia Kays, St. Petersburg residents, told the Tampa Bay Times they were near the lake eating breakfast when they saw about 10 alligators dragging the body through the water.
“I saw an alligator take a chunk out of [the body], throw it up in the air and catch it and eat it,” Kays told the paper.
“I had to go back to the car after that. I couldn’t watch it anymore.”
Crawford told ABC Action News: “I seen the gator chomping on it. ..."
St. Petersburg Fire Rescue removed the body from the lake and a search of the water for any personal belongings came up empty.
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Sign reads: "Do not feed or molest the alligators"
I remember in the early 70’s hearing that alligators were endangered. I think they’ve made a comeback. And with a vengeance!
They need to be made endangered again.
Let’s get together for breakfast.
Sorry, I no longer have an appetite.
That’s what the gators were doing.
I hate to say this, but stories like this are so disturbing to me that I turn away and close.
I’m sure I am in the minority, but shocking, disturbing animal stories really turn me off.
Now, those of you who enjoy this, can insult me.
Is this not a traditional bayou way to dispose of one’s enemy?
Has anyone seen Debbie Wassername Schulz lately? She’s been awfully quiet...
>>“We’re unable to tell anything about it — gender or race or anything,” St. Petersburg police spokeswoman Yolanda Fernandez said.
Gender is difficult to acertain at any time. It is a fluid construct and some opt to identify as ‘neither’... Or so I’ve been told by quack scientists, academics, and homofascists.
What did Little Debbie do to weewee up the Clintons?
Sadly for the left, the authorities will be forced to judge this corpse by the content of its character.
St. Petersburg Fire Rescue removed the body from the lake and a search of the water for any personal belongings came up empty.
No insult here....just a reminder that without our tools, humans are not the top of the food chain.
It’s the Florida Man equivalent of “sky burial”.
Emotional support alligator visits senior home, is just like a dog, owner says
Is that the nursing home Terry Schiavo's husband put her in?
If that’s the same alligator (it’s about 3 ft long) the mentally ill man hugs it and gives it to strangers to kiss. He visits day care places with it too, All sorts of people are really stupid around animals.
I think your reaction is sensible but look at post 16. There are lots of people who are dangerously deluded about what alligators are.
Time for an extended open season ...
Here's another from the same slides which shows the creature's size makes him fully capable of doing the most serious damage to a human. 
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