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Kayaker killed in alligator attack in Central Florida, officials say
foxnews.com ^ | Andrew Wulfeck

Posted on 05/07/2025 5:15:50 AM PDT by V_TWIN

POLK COUNTY, Fla. - A kayaker was attacked and killed by an alligator Tuesday afternoon at Lake Kissimmee State Park in Central Florida, according to authorities.

Authorities were alerted to the incident just before 4 p.m. when a witness reported an encounter with the reptile.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission released a statement that read, "Preliminary information indicates that a woman was canoeing when she encountered an alligator and went into the water. The woman was later recovered from the water and was declared deceased."

The most recent incident comes during peak alligator mating season, a period when the animals are typically more active and territorial.

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To: V_TWIN

Darwin award winner of the week. WTF goes kayaking in an alligator infested swamp?


21 posted on 05/07/2025 6:30:53 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: dfwgator

Saturday, I pulled up to the traffic light and couldn’t believe my eyes. The car in front of me had a U Florida Tennessee vanity license tag.


22 posted on 05/07/2025 6:34:17 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: jerod

During mating season


23 posted on 05/07/2025 6:36:04 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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24 posted on 05/07/2025 6:38:54 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Magnum44

The distance from the alligator’s eyes to it’s nose is in inches is the same number as the length in feet


25 posted on 05/07/2025 6:42:12 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: bert
The car in front of me had a U Florida Tennessee vanity license tag.

During mating season.

26 posted on 05/07/2025 6:44:22 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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27 posted on 05/07/2025 6:48:30 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Waverunner

My sister and I got caught coming back to their house on lake Santa Fe in Melrose just south of Jax one evening. We were paddling their ganoe down the canal just after dark and a couple of big gators started grunting and we could hear the splashing of some hitting the water. We were never so glad to see the light on the end of their dock. We still joke about it.


28 posted on 05/07/2025 7:10:34 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: jerod

The same people who go paddle boarding on Cape Cod and then get filmed with a Great White Shark circling them.


29 posted on 05/07/2025 7:16:48 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

I love seeing coastal democrat tenderfoot types wandering Arizona desert rattlesnake country in shorts and flip flops.😎


30 posted on 05/07/2025 8:32:44 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

I went to the la Paloma resort outside of Tucson back in the 90s. I remember the signs on the golf course not to look for balls off the sides of the fairways due to rattlesnakes.


31 posted on 05/07/2025 8:46:21 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Ann Archy

Maybe they mean it flipped.


32 posted on 05/07/2025 8:48:10 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: Ann Archy

Yeah, had to be a tourist. All along the Gulf coast gators are everywhere, primarily ‘cause some stupid states protect them.
They are not invisible. If that floating log follows you it is not a log. That raised trash heap along the shore is not a beaver dam — it is a nest.

Geesh.


33 posted on 05/07/2025 9:18:32 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: woodbutcher1963

34 posted on 05/07/2025 9:54:08 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker
That's what caddies are for. 😉
35 posted on 05/07/2025 10:03:11 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: V_TWIN

NO WAY am I getting on any water in FL in a kayak or canoe. Nor swim in anything not a pool. I have to be able to see the bottom😄


36 posted on 05/07/2025 10:05:59 AM PDT by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: FamiliarFace

Initial reports I saw here were that gator grabbed her out of the kayak.


37 posted on 05/07/2025 10:06:53 AM PDT by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: V_TWIN

Lake Kissimmee is supposedly #2 in the state for gator population.


38 posted on 05/07/2025 10:08:48 AM PDT by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: V_TWIN

Mess with the bull, get the deathroll.


39 posted on 05/07/2025 10:23:51 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: Red Badger

Last summer we went to Crystal River and rented a house that had kayaks and a boathouse. On our very first day there, I was sitting on the edge of the property along the canal. I thought I saw a gator in there, so called to my hubby. As soon as I yelled, that alligator turned around and came towards me and went up to the boathouse. No thanks. I ran back inside the screened lanai. We decided no kayaking on that trip.


40 posted on 05/07/2025 10:33:40 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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