Posted on 07/14/2025 7:41:41 AM PDT by V_TWIN
This happened in my county.............
Gator ping!
It was the high note of her summer.
I would have lost it. I don't see myself staying calm under these circumstances.
Nonsense! She and her mother are the first responders.
The "first responder" to an emergency involving you is YOU. Plan accordingly.
Gators need killin’.
Looking for the AlligatorGirl transformation akin to Spiderman
No waterways in Florida are safe from gators. Behave accordingly.
They’re certainly not endangered anymore. Quite the contrary.
If you’re ever in this situation, your best chance its to poke the gator in the eyes, or punch it in the snout.
My “step son” and my son in law take them with treble hooks and bang sticks. Told them I wanted them to dye the skin in a robins egg blue so I can take them to an Italian cobbler I know. Perfect attire for the jazz club I used to frequent.
Poor girl. When we first moved here in the 70s, we saw a gator under our sewer grate, which lead to a canal. My Dad called it in and an Ocean World guy came and took it out. We measured it on our front lawn. It was 5’9”. What an experience.
If one reads the journal of Cabeza De Vaca, one notes that during his journey from Florida to the Pacific Coast of Mexico between 1527-36, he did not see a single alligator. Indians ate them.
I only saw one ‘gator that I thought was of particularly impressive size, in Florida. The speed with which it vanished into shallow water was amazing.
I hate these jurassic throw backs that serve no purpose in this world. Lost a classmate in third grade to one of these vile things, and have had friends lose pets (cats and small dogs).
Hate, hate, HATE them.
Ouch.
A 6-foot gator can easily kill an adult. It will pull a person down and spin a limb right out of its socket, if the human were lucky!
Had a dumb ass neighbor that used to put food on a tray and send it out into the lake and watch the gators tip the tray up and snatch the food, neat as you please. The current would drift the tray back to his dock. I kept telling him it was illegal to feed them and stupid, as it helped the lizards lose all fear of humans. I showed him a lima bean, which is the size of a gators brain. No room in there for empathy.
One day, he was waist deep, retrieving an empty food tray and a 15-footer came up next to him, looking for something to eat. He became an instant believer and threw the trays away. His pants, too, as he never could fully get the crap stains out of them.
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