Posted on 06/20/2022 7:58:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
Reason #27 why you should not relocate to Florida: Gators are like Terminators, they absolutely won’t stop until you are dead.
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The bunny in Monty pythons movie was way more vicious
“I’m sure that there were more than one gator in the pit but there was one that hung out where we all swam.”
I grew up in the panhandle where we fished the ponds at night. Could see dozens if pairs of red eyes with the flashlight but that never stopped us from jumping in to cool off.
Poor dog. At least it sounds like it was lightning quick for Toby
love johnny horton...
Saw a vid posted on Nextdoor, in my sister’s neighborhood (not too far from where we live) of a gator walking, up on all four, across a subdivision street. Someone stopped to film it.
The craziest thing was watching it step up, and down, from the curb.
“and they all become more active in the spring and summer when their metabolism increases.”
Spring and summer? That’s all year in Florida.
Years ago I had a neighbor who worked on Hilton Head S.C. One day he was out jogging on his lunch hour and came across a man and his small son tossing a tennis ball into a pond for their dog to fetch. He stopped and told the guy he shouldn’t do that because there were alligators in the ponds. The guy was a real smart a$$ to him and basically told him to mind his own business, it was a tourist area and they wouldn’t allow alligators. My neighbor (Chip) kept jogging to his turn around point and when he came back there was a police car with the little boy sitting there crying. Chip stopped and asked the cop what had happened, he replied that an alligator had taken the dog. He told the cop he had warned the guy about that 30 minutes ago and was ignored, the guy heard him and shot him a look that could kill.
This Alabama boy doesn’t like the taste or texture of gator meat. Besides, it violates one of my main rules for diet: I don’t eat reptiles, including turtles, snakes, lizards and alligators.
LOL
There’s a very old relic in St. Cloud, Florida called The Serpentarium
Not a huge place, but they extract venom from rattlesnakes, cobras, etc for research …….
…the handler has been there for many years (& is missing digits on at least 2 fingers……almost died once!
Tourists are welcome, but I wouldn’t advise it nowadays
The handler has gone full blown crazed liberal….to the point folks walk out of his presentations……( he wasn’t always like this, maybe it was the snake venom)
Anyway, this place has a large watering hole behind it with a huge alligator….
…and routinely they get road kill and toss it to the gator!
That gator’s reaction is so fast!
Folks can stand up close and personal( I wouldn’t advise it)
I think their old big gator finally died!
“Raw hamburger on a stick with IED stuffed inside and detonated remotely will make the gator lose his mind.”
They don’t have a gator or croc problem in parts of Africa. They have assault hippos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMXnhiv3NqY
wy69
They climb fences too.
8^)
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Yep me too. I memorized the sing when I was younger i liked it so much.
I’ve seen them climb chain link fences!😳
Hmmm, tell us Red why did the gator cross the road? ;-)
You beat me to it.
Must have posted right before I did!😭
My rule is I never eat anything that will eat me!
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