Officials removing an alligator that was being aggressive with traffic in Florida.
Posted on 04/27/2020 9:01:03 AM PDT by SJackson
Officials removing an alligator that was being aggressive with traffic in Florida.
Officials are warning Florida motorists to beware of road rage -- but not from fellow drivers.
"It's gator mating season," the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said on Facebook. "This means they could be more mobile and aggressive than usual." Alligators become more active in the spring, as the weather warms. They begin to court in April, but mating runs May through June, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).
The sheriff's office shared a photo of a 9-foot male that was caught and relocated to a gator farm after being aggressive with traffic.
With 1.2 million alligators in Florida, officials are reminding people to never harass or feed them and report nuisance alligators to the FWC.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I’ll live it and hug it and call it George...
I object to the entire premise of this article.
Mating season? Meaning male and female mating?
This is both hetero normative and binary in its assumptions.
What about the behaviors of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered gators? Where is the article giving equal time to those gators?
Sarcasm...........
What a croc.....
“I imagine this story resurfaces every year, kind of like the ones at Thanksgiving to remind you to eat and then get that bird in the refrigerator RIGHT NOW!”
and every year there is story about a guy who burns down his garage because of dropping a frozen turkey in the fryer.
They can scream it all they want. (Most of) our politicians down here still have a bit of common sense. Beaches are opening all over and I imagine stores and restaraunts will be next.
I knew YOU would be on this thread.
Righto. Who wants to be raped by an alligator?
Between the reptiles in Washington and those in Florida you have to watch your fanny where ever you go.
Last spring I had the usual love-crazed squirrel problem. They climb up the side of the house and scream.
So I picked up a rake and the little basker wouldn’t budge. I poked him, he wouldn’t leave. I whacked the side of the house with the rake so he’d get the message.
Instead, he went to the nearest window and kept screaming. Like he knew I wouldn’t smash a window.
This year I will try pepper spray. Maybe he won’t be so attractive to his ladies with a spritz of Le Pew on him.
I live my life under the assumption that all alligators I come across are agressive.
Of course, we don’t get many alligators in West Virginia...
911 call to Orlando police from 5 years ago:
911, what’s your emergency?
There’s a dinosaur in my backyard!
Sir, what kind of dinosaur?
A real live one!
Sir, can you describe the dinosaur.
Damn thing’s about 10 feet long and has an ugly mouth with a lot of teeth showing!
Sir, does the dinosaur have four legs and walking close to the ground?
Yes! Yes! And it’s got all kinds of ugly looking scales on its back!
Sir, that’s an alligator. They are common to Florida.
Well, I’m from New York and you folks need to do something about it.
Sir, you do not have a legitimate 911 emergency.
The Hell I don’t!
Scaly, horny, and angry.
An alligator being “aggressive with traffic” during mating season? Was it an attempted tryst by a nearsighted gator?
The shoe industry is excited-— increase in supply stock of gator hides! Cut em, salt ‘em, keep em moist and roll em up for shipping. Local delivery is free.
When Alligator Alley was 2 lanes long ago- this time of year late at night had to keep a sharp eye (low to no shoulder on road and swamp right up to it) they’d lay on the warm road, being lizards and all. DOT could not keep up with replacing the warning sign gator sillouette signage UF fans and others kept stealing off roadside. Fun memory. It’s 4 lane with neutral ground now, and plenty of gators and now anacondas and other exotic pets let go there.
FYI— One can hear the low freq. rumble in the swamps/dancing water drops on the surface above a bull gator’s back. They walk from water to water looking for lady gators. Sort of how the deeper state comms regularly. Low frequency code words and high public whining from the tooting targeted traitors...pissing/aerating their pants. This week especially. Laissez les bon temps rouler!
“I am the leader of the clan, known as the Alligator Man”... Jimmy C. Newman. Acadian Gator
“Toot-’em Lizbeth, Toot’em!” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAE0dKR8gyY
All who have alligator leather products shelter in place.
What! No social distancing for gators?
Sounds like Mötley Crue
hmmm- when they are i n the water- courting females, people can swim right through large groups of them (I wouldn’t suggest doing so- but have seen shows that showed this)
They leave the water and shore areas wandering around looking for females... and they’re not in a good mood until they find one.
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