In case you are one out of 3.2 million persons that is attacked by an alligator.
Posted on 06/04/2021 9:53:13 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Yep, seen that before. Don’t think I’d want that job!
Don’t pet the saltwater crocodile.
I’m used to being around animals who see me as prey.
I’ve worked in urban areas.
Lots of things you can do with them. Wallets, belts, shoes, handbags. . . .
They use a 22 rifle in that show, almost exclusively.
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You are right, I’ve watched many episodes and I’m glad you qualified your statement with the word “almost”. I’ve seen them use .22 pistols on occasion and Troy’s son, can’t remember his name, once used a knife.
It’s all about the soft kill spot on the top of their heads.
That’s alligator hunting though, this interesting article was about crocs, which I’ve read are more aggressive and grow somewhat larger that alligators.
Choot ‘em Elizabeth, choot ‘em!
Is his nickname “Lefty” yet
Why aren’t people hunting these creatures to near extinction? What purpose do they serve?
At first I thought that feller was unarmed but went back and looked again.
He is carrying a stick in his left hand, by golly!
At the heart of her insight is the knowledge that we are food—”juicy, nourishing, bodies” for the rest of the animal kingdom. We forget that. “
There is real “insight” and there is what the stones in the street know. She was a delusional dumb ass until a croc took advantage of that fact.
Short version:
She was an environmental activist,...When Val climbed into her vessel that morning in 1985, she did so in good faith.
The saltwater crocodile is a different beast, and it boils down to intent. As crocodile researcher Professor Grahame Webb has put it: "There is no way of avoiding nor sugarcoating the predatory nature of saltwater crocodiles. If you dive off the Adelaide River bridge, 60 km east of Darwin's city center, and start swimming, there is a 100% chance of being taken by a saltwater crocodile. It is not the same as swimming with sharks."..
We know so much about this attack because Val survived it. But also because she was a philosopher. She didn't just survive it, she thought about it, she examined its consequences, and she wrote about it.
At the heart of her insight is the knowledge that we are food—"juicy, nourishing, bodies" for the rest of the animal kingdom. We forget that. Or perhaps, we never really come to know it. Val knew, but when she found herself as prey, she rejected the idea. I'll let her speak for herself here:
"My disbelief was not just existential but ethical—this wasn't happening,couldn't be happening. The world was not like that! The creature was breaking the rules, totally mistaken, utterly wrong to think I could be reduced to food. As a human being, I was so much more than food. Were all the other facets of my being to be sacrificed to this utterly undiscriminating use, was my complex organization to be destroyed so I could be reassembled as part of this other being?"
With indignation as well as disbelief, I rejected this event. It was an illusion! It was not only unjust but unreal! It couldn't be happening. After much later reflection, I came to see that there was another way to look at it. There was illusion alright, but it was the other way around. It was the world of 'normal experience' that was the illusion, and the newly disclosed brute world in which I was prey was, in fact, the unsuspected reality, or at least a crucial part of it… both I and the culture that shaped my consciousness were wrong, profoundly wrong —about many things,...
The above is a testimony to the delusion of idolators who make nature itself an object of worship, living in denial of the basic nature of beasts, and defending such as victims which they slavishly defend as misunderstood. And like cult members who finally see how selfish and cruel their false Christ is, then this women is finally "deprogrammed" thru a unadorned cruel encounter with raw nature that only sees her as a means to satisfy lust.
Yet which nature and its own suffering is actually a consequence of man's original sin of idolatry against the giving God, and which sinners the unselfish true Christ gave Himself for, thanks be to God.
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (Romans 5:12)
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. (Romans 8:20-23)
And why is he wearing a mask? Are these COVID crocs?
This clip really gives me the willies. I can imagine myself as a little boy jumping across that trickle in the grass and thinking nothing of it - until that improbably enormous monster lurched out and swallowed me whole the next instant.
In case you are one out of 3.2 million persons that is attacked by an alligator.
Bleeding heart liberal thinks being a goody-two shoes gives them a pass to do as they please. That they are exempt from any hazzard.
So who was watching her get eaten, from her Red Ryder canoe to her favorite swimming hole tree?
Libs protect them. As the liberal author said, salties were nearly wiped out 50 years ago until theIr evil kin, libs, started crying about it. Libs protect all evil.
Or just doing your part to make the world a better, more livable, place!
Or dog. A Floridian friend told me alligators looove dog meat. They'll actually come out of the water and chase down a dog and catch it!. They're that fast. Don't know if it's true. Never been there. Sounds pretty bad, with all the gators, pythons and libs.
They are luggage and shoes to us.
Many think the leviathan in the bible is a crocodile.
I think you’re onto something! The guy in comment #19 above also has a stick. What is it with crocs and sticks? Are they afraid of little sticks? Seems improbable.
Only stupid people go paddling in a canoe in a area with crocodiles.
Hey, she was a lib. But I repeat yourself. :-)
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