Posted on 05/17/2006 9:03:04 AM PDT by george76
State wildlife officials field a flood of calls about alligators in the wake of recent fatal gator attacks...
As news of fatal alligator attacks spread throughout Florida and the nation, operators at the Statewide Nuisance Alligator Program in Okeechobee are swamped.
Operators have stayed late this week to handle the flood of phone calls. They logged 225 calls on Monday, more than double the number of calls they answered a year ago.
''It was nonstop,'' said biologist Lindsey Hord, the program's coordinator. ``As soon as they hung up with one person, they answered another call.''
The call volume increased last Thursday after a 9 ½-foot alligator fatally attacked Davie resident Yovy Suarez Jimenez.
The Broward County Medical Examiner determined she was dragged from the canal bank into the water. The alligator was captured and two arms were found inside the reptile.
Last weekend, the bodies of two more women -- one in Pinellas County and another in Ocala National Forest -- were found.
(Excerpt) Read more at miami.com ...
He insinuated they were attracted to the women because of a scent, and when realizing they weren't their type, they became dinner.
We need the gators to keep down the boa constrictor population..
The way I look at it is this, if an animal, man or woman threatens my family or my life in any way. They're dead. Click, Click, Boom! The law has gotten so out of hand that in the near future vigilantism is going to be the only way to get justice. As it is now the criminals and in this case the alligator has more rights than the Victim. Un****ing believable!
Then a Wildlife PR Official will bite their lip and say that they feel the family's pain of losing their mother, daughter, wife...
But, at least, they saved another gator.../s
Instead of hunting gators, shouldn't we be rounding them up, for use in the moat along the border?
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