Posted on 06/07/2013 10:12:36 PM PDT by Daffynition
Daytona Beach, FL - A large alligator was shot and killed by a Daytona Beach police officer after it allegedly made threatening moves against nearby residents.
In his monthly “Ask The Chief” appearance on WNDB’s Marc Bernier program, Daytona Beach police chief Mike Chitwood says the incident started around 12:43pm Friday at a retention pond on the 1000 block of George W. Engram Boulevard.
“There’s a woman who said that her kids had been going in through the hole in the fence and feeding the gator and poking it with a stick,” Chitwood told Bernier.
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Who’s eating it? A large alligator is a lot of groceries.
Seems like the “children” were threatening the gator first.
Boots!
Wallet!
Belt!
Dumb kids ... Should be advised that alligators feed on small animals near shorelines.
As Darwin would have said, those kids came close to being selected against.
I have a biker cousin who had a pet alligator in his basement. Shortly after his long time girlfriend left him his alligator died so he buried it at night in his backyard. His neighbor saw him burying something big at night and didn’t see the girlfriend so he called the police. The police made my cousin dig-up the alligator to show them what he had buried.
"It's a automatic forfeit", yelled someone from a group of volleyball players gathered by the bank at the Siesta Bay RV Resort in Fort Myers as they watched a large alligator biting and holding onto a volleyball that accidentally went into the water. "Apparently, he took a bite more than he could handle," said Frank Bartram, one of the volleyball players. The alligator eventually swam away with its leather prey. [Apr 21, 1999]
Was the Gator an IRS employee?
I don’t know.
Was I supposed to know?
I didn’t know, I didn’t know.
Who won ?
Yeah, to quote a great American Politician (cough - cough), “what difference does it make?”
Obscure "V" reference
So that’s where Ridley Scott got the idea of the Alien “snake” attacking the idiot scientist in Prometheus.
First off, a Daytona Beach Sergeant- is a funny bunch of stuff, at the least. I can’t quit laughin’. Anyhow, good to see ya, Daffynition.
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