Posted on 07/02/2022 2:56:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An alligator was caught on camera approaching a group of golfers on a Florida course while a member of the party nonchalantly took his shot.
A video posted to Facebook by Melissa Walsh shows her husband, Michael West, lining up and taking his shot at the Heritage Landing Golf & Country Club in Punta Gorda while ignoring the alligator approaching him from the rear.
"I was lining up my approach shot from about 125 [yards] out. I knew he was coming up diagonally behind me," West told McClatchy News.
The rest of West's party laughed after he took the shot with the gator about 15 feet away.
"Hey man, we got a foursome. We're full. We're good," one of the golfers says in the video. "This guy decided he wants to join."
West said the alligator most likely was just curious while taking a walk.
"He was very likely headed to the bigger lake across the fairway," West said. "He was just going about his business. It was great. I get to have a dinosaur watch me play."
Florida Man be tough. On land, we have alligaors, rattlesnakes and three other species of venemous snake; at the beach, we have sharks waiting in the water; and for stay at home urban types, we have blistering heat and sun and hurricanes and tornadoes. They are all part of the environment.
When I was a kid in Texas, I was fishing (running a trot line) with a friend of my father. He pulled up a snapping turtle on the line, calmly took a revolver from his tackle box and killed the turtle. Reflecting on that, I thought carrying the pistol was not a bad idea as there were also alligators in that river.
I don’t even like going swimming in water that has Jelly Fish.
I live in SW Florida and have taken several shots with gators nearby. We give them names. The only time they get aggressive is during mating season and when females have babies. Even then the almost exclusively attack other gators. We have one woh is always within 5 yards of the 11th green. She catches sun by the pond.
They like to hang out on the banks of smaller rivers just before they empty into the Mississippi. At least that’s where we see them most often.
Florida man just never disappoints.
Weekends are short. Gotta get those chores done!
Alligator barely missed a hole in one.
I know, I know.
Couldn’t resist. :-)
LOL!!! Amen...
LOL!!! yup
Sounds like the final scene in Coneheads.
We have lots of gators on our golf courses here in SC. It is forbidden for humans to feed them. If they don’t associate humans with food, they’re not a threat. Mostly we ignore them and they ignore us. As said below, they get aggressive in mating season (Apr-Jun) and if you wander close to a nest. We had a guy get bit who was mowing near a lagoon. I would have taken that shot.
You know what is the best thing about the Appalachians? No dinosaurs.
The retirement communities around this part of the mountains are full of them.
“Alligators are not migrating to East Tennessee, though a four-foot gator was captured in Madisonville in 2018. Officials believe it was someone’s pet. In addition, several Caiman crocodiles have also been spotted in East Tennessee. They look like small gators and are also likely pets that have been released.”
His wife is very demanding.
Gators are capable of short bursts of speed of about 30 mph.
Good idea to give them their space.
One of our neighbors in Florida took her dog for a walk by a pond. A gator did a number on her leg. Dog was unhurt.
Focus!
No yips allowed.
all part of the environment
Lovebugs in May, And in the winter, freaking snowbirds.
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