Posted on 07/14/2025 7:41:41 AM PDT by V_TWIN
OKALOOSA COUNTY, FlA. - A teenage girl is recovering after being bitten by a 10-foot alligator, according to the Walton County Sheriff's Office.
The incident occurred in Pond Creek, about 20 to 25 miles northeast of Destin.
Officials said the alligator bit 14-year-old Sumer Hinote on the leg, dragged her underwater, and shook her violently.
.Deputies said she fought back by punching the animal in the head and managed to escape with the help of a friend.
Hinote suffered severe lacerations to her leg but did not lose it. Her mother rushed her to first responders for treatment.
The alligator has not been captured, and the family is urging visitors to exercise caution around the creek.
Nope.
That kind of thinking puts gators as equal value with humans.
Good stewards might not wipe out gators but certainly should control their numbers.
“That kind of thinking puts gators as equal value with humans.”
Seems they were successful here long before the humans crashed the party. And the only group that is artificially determining and altering the course are the humans. If we don’t infringe into their area, we are not the problem.
If you don’t want them in your area, put up fences. They keep you out of their area with the threat of what they have done for over a million years. We hunted them into threatened numbers with many other animal species going into extension. In particular are the buffalo hunted for sport and whales hunted for oils we didn’t need as their are artificial oils available and that’s still happening.
Other animals were sea otters, now coming back, and grey wolves, which thinned the elk population in the forests.
A steward of the land supports the existing rules mother nature established. Not change them because they are a nuisance to our way of life (human). And to make matters worse, the true example of stewards of the land, the American Indian, was also hunted even though they knew how to handle the buffalo for their mutual existence and did so for thousands of years. The tribes had no problem respecting the buffalos’ existence, the buffalo didn’t either. Only the humans coming in had a problem. And a lot of that for the killing of both was for gold, not stewardship.
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