Vacationers Find Alligator Lounging on Alligator Pool Float at Their Miami Airbnb

Miami New Timea ^ | 05/20/2019 | Jessica Lipscomb

[goldstategop]

Here are some places in Florida where you can reasonably expect to encounter an alligator: a storm sewer, the end of an airport runway, your local golf course. But this might be a first — while in town for a wedding, Georgia resident Dave Jacobs and his family spotted a gator casually chilling on an alligator-shaped pool float at their Airbnb in South Miami.

"My daughter, who’s 14, was like, 'Dad, this is soooo meta,'" Jacobs tells New Times.

[treetopsandroofs]

We fired our cannon ‘til the barrel melted down
So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round
We filled his head with cannon balls, and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off the gator lost his mind

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin’...

[yuleeyahoo]

Everybody needs an occasional vacation.

[Bob434]

[[How did it get in the “screened in pool deck”?]]

obviously it was a hackagator- and somehow figured out the password to the electronic lock

[Bob434]

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin’...

There wasn’t bout as many as there was a pot of gold, we fired once more and they began a’runnin, on down the Mississippi to the gulf of mexico

[treetopsandroofs]

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We fired our cannon ‘til the barrel melted down
So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round
We filled his head with cannon balls, and powdered his behind

And when we touched the powder off the gator lost his mind

[Verginius Rufus]

Meta has a number of meanings in Greek, including "after."

"Metaphysics" got its name from a work by Aristotle called the Metaphysika (Metaphysics) because it came after his Physika (Physics).

[Mopp4]

Would have been funnier if he was lounging on a flotation shaped like a human......

[mabarker1]

Nah, just needed a Buddy for the HOV Lane.

[KosmicKitty]

And metadata :-)

[Rusty0604]

:-)

[wally_bert]

Meta Rosenberg.

[subterfuge]

“Where do you find gators in Florida?”

Everywhere!!

[Lockbox]

Did the Airbnb had a no pet rule?

I won't say where, when or who...… but a friend shot a 38 cal pistol at a gator in the back yard pond, I told them to stop because that size caliper would just piss off the gator! (yes they missed, I concluded that I should never go hunting with them....)

[freedomlover]

There wasn’t bout as many as there was a pot of gold

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Uh, whut? :)

[chaosagent]

There wasn’t bout as many as there was a pot of gold

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How about, “There wasn’t nar as many as there was a while a go”

[Pearls Before Swine]

“Dad, this is so meta”

Pretty cool comment from a 14-year old. It’s recursive... alligators all the way down.

[mabarker1]

????????????????????

[Billthedrill]

“This float is shaped like an alligator. It’s mine. Your float is shaped like a human. Do I have to explain everything?”