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Video of massive Florida 'dinosaur' gator creates buzz
Click Orlando ^
| January 16, 2017
| Staff
Posted on 01/17/2017 6:06:20 AM PST by C19fan
And you thought dinosaurs were extinct.
Video of a massive alligator spotted in Lakeland was posted to Facebook on Sunday, raising the eyebrows of many.
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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: alligator; florida
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Did they open a Jurassic World in Orlando?
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:06:20 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:09:48 AM PST
by
Mercat
(Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
To: C19fan
I am from the north and don’t know much about alligators but these people seem awfully calm to be that close no matter the size of it.
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:10:38 AM PST
by
certrtwngnut
(Hey snowflake. You want a safe place go to a gun range.)
To: C19fan
To: certrtwngnut
...and they are prepared just for the moment it arrives.
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:13:39 AM PST
by
bramps
(It's the Islam, stupid!)
To: Mercat
No real! I have friends down there that have been telling that there have been some very large gators being sighted. Anywhere between 12 and 16 feet.
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:14:24 AM PST
by
DarthVader
("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
To: C19fan
Video of a massive alligator spotted in Lakeland Have stayed occasioanlly at my BIL's place in Lakeland over the last 6-8 years. Nearby is a wide trail that's used by runners, walker, etc.
My BIL has repeatedly told me it's safe to run there - to which I have adamantly refused to do so.
And seeing this huge freakin' gator is exactly why I don't.
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:14:29 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: C19fan
That’s just an old fully grown gator. Nothing unusual.
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:17:41 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: C19fan
Born and raised in FL.
The gator is real.
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:18:04 AM PST
by
Fantasywriter
(Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
To: Mercat
It is probably a perspective illusion. Use the right kind of lens and a close up object can look massive compared to objects in the background. We also make an assumption of how big people are and since we cannot gauge how far away they are, we assume the Gator must be huge to dwarf the size of a six foot person.
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:18:22 AM PST
by
LukeL
To: DarthVader
They’ve found Nile cross there. Could be a crossbreed.
To: LukeL
#10 Get close to one and see if your perspective changes : )
To: C19fan
That’s a little closer than I’d want to be to a gator, but it’s not an unnaturally large one.
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:23:01 AM PST
by
PLMerite
(Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen.)
To: Fantasywriter
I saw one like that walking around the campground at Flamingo.
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:26:54 AM PST
by
Ray76
(DRAIN THE SWAMP)
To: C19fan
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:27:17 AM PST
by
Jed Eckert
( " President Trump"....I love it when a plan comes together :)
To: oh8eleven
why are all those people so freaking CLOSE to it? are people THAT stupid?
Gators can run up to 35 MPH !!
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:31:21 AM PST
by
TexasFreeper2009
(You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
To: Ray76
That’s not a sight you’d be likely to forget. When they get that big, they make an impression.
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:39:25 AM PST
by
Fantasywriter
(Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
To: C19fan
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:42:33 AM PST
by
Bratch
("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
To: TexasFreeper2009
By my observation of extended stomach area and disregard to people, he had just finished a large meal.
Better check to see if any tourists are missing at roll call.
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posted on
01/17/2017 6:42:59 AM PST
by
GOYAKLA
(" The Russians made me vote, for Donald J. Trump"! NOT!)
To: certrtwngnut
My aunt lived in Florida. They were in the pond in the open area of her condo complex. She said to run crooked....really, really fast.
We talked about the shortest distance between two points.
Never did any sunbathing in her back yard.
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