Posted on 08/16/2021 6:18:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Video taken by a guest shows an unidentified handler at Scales & Tails Utah, in suburban Salt Lake City, talking to some adults and children about the alligator Saturday when it bit her hand and dragged her into the water.
Shane Richins, the company’s owner, said...this time the reptile “got a little extra spunky.”
One of the guests, later identified as Donnie Wiseman, yelled “We’ve got trouble in here!” before jumping into the water and climbing on top of the reptile.
Wiseman got the alligator pinned, and the handler calmly gave him and another man, Todd Christopher, instructions to help her escape from the pool. Wiseman stayed on top of the reptile until the woman was free.
Christopher’s wife... then began performing first aid before emergency crews arrived at the scene.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
The person sticking their arm in the air above the the alligator. I got the distinct impression of complacency, as if they had done that many times and it was no big deal.
Maximum Bob. A judge who always gave the maximum sentence. I had to look it up, forgot the title.
He wrote that seven years before Tom Wolfe wrote A Man in Full.
Well, maybe she learned her lesson.
Wild animals are, well, wild.
People anthropomorphizing animals is behind the stupidity of thinking you can trust any animal, IMO. I think Disney is a big contributor of that.
I couldn’t be more in agreement.
It is extremely dangerous. I always tell the story of a huge Moose I saw up in Maine some years back, and there was a tourist who walked right up to it just about five feet away (we were on a bus to take us to a drop-off point for white water rafting)
Then you see the tourists walking up to Bison out west in Yellowstone, I think...
In both cases, those people could have become grease spots. But thankfully, didn’t.
I love birds, and interact with them when I can...but birds aren’t going to kill me. Anything larger than a chipmunk I give space to. Squirrels I am kind of on the fence with, and anything more than that I keep a respectful distance.
He needs to undergo sensitivity training so that his toxic masculinity doesn't upset the new norm!
Well...help was needed, and there was only so much ‘gator to rassle.
Squirrel stew is good.
More than bats, birds are coronavirus reservoirs that migrate thousands of miles. That's probably how deer are getting Wuhan, and how some people catch a flu with no known carrier contact.
Now that we have software defined antigen generators and antibody clone factories, virologists should get busy attacking viruses in nature, especially in China where starving socialists eat everything.
I get your point, but that isn’t what I meant...:)
A Kid’s party?
Maybe if you are a Thibodeaux or a direct descendent of Amos Moses?
Amos Moses 2 Min 17 Sec
https://youtu.be/n7GyLr7Cz2g
That said...I DO wash my hands every time...:)
Donnie Wiseman is THE MAN!
Watch it!
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