Posted on 07/02/2006 8:48:03 PM PDT by george76
“I didn't even think- that's what scares me the most is that I just reacted."
Brent Carey is still reliving the horror of Sunday afternoon. What started as a relaxing day at the park with his girlfriend Jessica Turner and her dog Chance, ended in a battle against a ten foot gator.
“I can't close my eyes without seeing that gator over Chance's head- it's awful,” Turner says.
She says the full-grown gator grabbed Chance while he was in the water swimming and started dragging him away.
“I could almost grab him and I thought I'm going to die right now, and Chance is probably already dead."
But that's when her boyfriend Brent sprang into action.
"I just ran off the bank jumped in the water and grabbed a hold of the first thing I could get a hold of," he says.
Brent grabbed the gator near it's back legs,causing it to release Chance from it's jaws—but not without a fight.
“Once we'd gone under the water once stuff started setting in- the sheer girth of this thing it was so strong."
But the alligator kept fighting, leaving marks from the struggle all over Brent's arms and legs.
(Excerpt) Read more at wcsc.com ...
But ... that's too simple! True, if it was opened to hunting and there was a size limit so that gators had a hard time growing bigger than, say, five feet, voila! Problem solved, and in heaven, hunters would be part of a free marketplace for gator stuff. Think of the cool gator handbags! *sigh* I can dream, can't I?
But alas, no, allowing more hunting would be yet another ugly example of man's maniupulation of nature. And these alligators are probably being visited upon us because of global warming, our own damned fault!
Just venting. I visited recently with some intelligent, professional friends who have swallowed hook line and sinker of the entire AlGore manifesto. All I could do was shake my head. Well, okay, I did more than that, but ... talk about gullible! Read a natural history book or two, for pete's sake. This planet has been heating and cooling and belching and melting and freezing nonstop for more than 5 billion years. We as a civilized species have been here for what, 4,000 years? Out of five Billion.
Florida (which hasn't even always been there) has been underwater and high-and-dry on and off for tens of millions of years. The last high water was what, 20,000 years? I've forgotten, but it's somethign like that. 20,000 lousy years ago out of 65 million since the last of the dinosaurs ... and before that what, 150 million years of nothing BUT dinosaurs ...
...and we've been here a smidgy piddling *nothing* of 4,000 years.
Every beach environmentalists strive to preserve will be underwater someday. There's no avoiding it. Every wetlands, bay, waterway, reef, environmentalists seek to control will be completely dry someday. You can see the old shorlines on coastlines from eons ago whether you scuba dive or hike the country. Twenty-five miles inland in the foothill mountains behind the California Central Coast, I've seen massive banks of fosillized oyster shells.
For the life of me, I don't understand why educated, sensible people don't have more common sense than to think that we matter one bit in the whole global weather scenario. And another thing! For secularist environmentalists, if man is just another animal of the planet, then philosophically his "environmental impact" is equal to beavers who build dams. So when's the last time you saw a beaver have to file for an EIR?
Yep- that's how they do it in Key West!
Someone needs to Photoshop a pizza box in the gator's paw. "Get the door: It's Domino's."
I watched the video. They make a cute couple. This would be a great story to tell the grandkids......
We have hunting dog owners from Florida coming up here to train because they can't find a gator-free body of water to do water retrieves in. (There goes any duck hunting, too. After the gators eat all the ducks, they'll get your Lab.)
I say open season on the nasty things. Now. Bring alligator bags and shoes back into fashion.
Do you think you made even a slight dent on your liberal friends? It's the lack of good solid scientific education that makes people so vulnerable to the Gore-type nonsense. My friends who are "hard" scientists or engineers, even the liberal ones, don't fall for this junk. (Now if we could just educate them about free market economics . . . hmmmmm, alligator shoes . . . . < sigh >)
how come nobody ever has a gun handy when one of these gators strikes?
Did the Florida gators kill three women in one week recently ?
( Not the football team )
We need more wallets, belts, hand bags, coats, shoes...
But nothing can save these Dogs from the Gators.
"Going in the water with a ten foot gator was ...ah...?"
Not the brightest idea this guy has ever had!
What about that Gator guy on TV, I don't think he would have any problem wrasselling a 10 footer.
Nice photo with the pizza !
"Can the gator hold its breath a long time" ?
"Why don't they just have open season on these gators and rid society of them"?
"She says the full-grown gator grabbed Chance while he was in the water swimming and started dragging him away."
Yet ANOTHER reason NOT to bother with water dogs.
You mean the alligator wasn't afraid of the dog barking? ;)
:)
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