Posted on 08/29/2019 4:58:53 PM PDT by Enterprise
360 lbs isn’t massive. Hillary prolly weighs that much.
Some of the best intentions result in some of the worst outcomes. The problem with the cabin cruiser happens, when you need a bigger boat.
That's a Wily Coyote/Roadrunner image.
It also reminds me of the stories of snow-mobilers who break through the ice, but manage to surf to safety by gunning the motor... the ridged snow belt underneath provides propulsion, and they plane up on the skis. It's supposed to work... sometimes... for a while.
Never seen it myself, maybe its a rural legend.
Atlanta Georgia in your article. It is at the beginning of the article.
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Really?
“If the alligator was planing, so was the kayak. “
Nope.
Up that idea, I was looking for a free beer. Besides smallest I got are 12 footers. Heeheeheee.
Okay, but he was paddling to beat all get out.
I give you now Professor Twist,
A conscientious scientist,
Trustees exclaimed, “He never bungles!”
And sent him off to distant jungles.
Camped on a tropic riverside,
One day he missed his loving bride.
She had, the guide informed him later,
Been eaten by an alligator.
Professor Twist could not but smile.
“You mean,” he said, “a crocodile.”
No gators in Atlanta?! What about the one that was living on the sand bar just a few miles upstream from Fulton County?!
One of my earliest memories was of Daddy killing an alligator in Otter Pond. This was in Walton County, FL.
I would guess around 6 feet. Daddy shot him with a WWII souvenir Luger, Only one shot.
To the “city kitties” & “presstitutes”, an OVER 1500 pound gator is a BIG gator. = The one chasing the kayak was a “middle schooler” at most.
According to the Wardens of the TPWD, the gators that are MOST LIKELY to attack & BITE people are “the little fellows” from 4-7 feet long, as they are often VERY aggressive & also LIGHTENING FAST at that size.
Btw, “BIG AL” the mascot of LONE STAR STEEL COMPANY of Morris County, Texas was 19 feet long & weighed well over a TON.
(He ate so much fish per week that LSS hired two men to catch his food & feed him.)
When BIG AL died of old age about 4 decades ago, he had the largest funeral that anyone in NE Texas had ever seen. = Over 20 HS bands, the ETSU Band & the Texas A&M “Aggie” Band played at his “last rites”.
The KILGORE RANGERETTES & the Tyler Jr. College APACHE BELLES performed at the pre-funeral activities.
The funeral procession was over 10 miles long, including DPS Trooper cars, numerous city/county police cars & firetrucks.
THE ROSS VOLUNTEERS of Texas A&M was “the official escort”/honorary pallbearers to his final resting place.
To quote my uncle, who was invited to attend, as the “official US Navy’s WWII representative” from our county, “It was ONE H of a PARTY.”
(The one thing that we wild & rebellious Texicans all know how to do well is, “throw a party”. —— CHUCKLE.)
yours, satx
They’re not native to Atlanta. Somebody put it there.
There’s plenty of animals though.
Hard to find sympathy for someone who goes night fishing in a kayak in a gator area.
Good story, though.
Unless you were the gator - who got killed for doing what Mother Nature told him to do.
Florida is “Gator Country” though. According to Molly Hatcett. Your dad was shooting pretty good. I shot a luger once couldn’t hit anything. Didja eat it? (the gator) Justin Wilson said they taste like chicken.
This fellow should write his memoirs entitled “Up The Creek With A Paddle.”
I was kind of thinking along those lines too.
I like peaceful fishing, sitting on the bank relaxing, communing with Nature.
“fighting off alligators” fishing is for the young...
“Justin Wilson said they taste like chicken.”
The tail meat is good eatin’, and white when cooked like chicken. If the gator isn’t too old and tough bite sized chunks of tail be]readied and fried are delicious.
https://www.food.com/recipe/brice-palmer-s-fried-alligator-bites-373589
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