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Young Florida man charged with animal cruelty for using baby gator to shotgun a Twisted Tea
The Orlando Weekly ^ | June 29, 2023 | Jessica Bryce Young

Posted on 07/29/2023 12:24:45 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has charged a Plant City minor with animal cruelty after seeing the worst kind of clout-chasing video circulating on social media.

The video, recorded last Thursday in a Plant City Hardee's parking lot, shows a group of teens handling a juvenile alligator roughly. One uses the gator's teeth to puncture a can of Arizona Twisted Tea, then shotgun the alcoholic beverage with the young reptile still clamped to the aluminum can.

“The lack of respect and responsibility shown toward this animal was disappointing to see. … This serves as a strong reminder of the consequences of such behavior,” the FWC said in a statement after opening an investigation into the tea-drinking teen.

Tampa station WFLA showed the video to Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation president Vernon Yates, who said, “This has got to stop.”

Seeing the teen basically use the reptile as a sentient drink holder, then drop it on the hot parking-lot pavement, the wildlife rehab expert noted that the gator seemed stunned, with the comment, “Normally, a little alligator about that size, when he hit the ground he should’ve hit it running.”

Yates noted that the gator may have been abused prior to the beginning of the video. “In my opinion, everyone they got on video that touched it needs to be brought in front of a judge,” Yates said.

The alligator was released (relatively) unharmed to a nearby retention pond, according to the FWC. Here's hoping it stays away from bored teenagers in the future.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Food; Health/Medicine; Local News; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: arrest; babygator; charges; florida; floridaman; plantcity; shotgunning; twistedtea
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Young gators can leave a mark.


21 posted on 07/29/2023 1:12:54 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: EEGator

“They leave a mark.”

Show us on the doll where they hurt you.


22 posted on 07/29/2023 1:21:27 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: dljordan

My skull jelly.


23 posted on 07/29/2023 1:22:30 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

“...Vernon Yates sounds like a fag...”

Carole Baskin, is that you? :P

Vernon Yates has been #2 on Carole’s s**t-list for almost twenty years (Joe Exotic, of course, being #1).


24 posted on 07/29/2023 2:09:21 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Kriggerel

LOL, no I pee standing up.

I forgot about her. Her husband is alive now, right?


25 posted on 07/29/2023 2:13:23 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

“...I forgot about her. Her husband is alive now, right?...”

Uhm, no.
That story was spread by Carole, herself, and she has offered no actual proof. Don Lewis is just as alive as Elvis.

Numerous investigators have poked all sorts of holes in that Homeland Security story (a little Google-Fu can pretty easily dig it up).

Baskin plays the Mainstream Media like a fiddle.


26 posted on 07/29/2023 2:25:52 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Kriggerel

Okay. That was certainly quite the crew of people.
True dumpster fire.
I thought it was a all fake at first.


27 posted on 07/29/2023 2:27:50 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I remember this episode from the Flintstones. If we didn’t have ipods, they’d likely be using a bird’s beak for a phonograph needle.


28 posted on 07/29/2023 2:39:27 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

When I lived in Subic Bay as a kid, my brother’s best friends father owned an infamous cat house/bar in Olongapo called “Paulines”. Its specialty was that it kept crocodiles in a large indoor pit, and they sold baby chicks to the drunken sailors so they could feed them to the crocodiles!

I never went there myself, but my brother told me about it. I only went off base by myself a few times, and I didn’t feel safe, being only 12 or 13. Olongapo was a pretty debauched place.


29 posted on 07/29/2023 2:45:35 PM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"The lack of respect ... shown towards this animal " How much serious insanity can a society sustain?
30 posted on 07/29/2023 2:52:04 PM PDT by A strike ("The worse, the better."- Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)
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To: EEGator

:)


31 posted on 07/29/2023 3:11:12 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ok someone define the modern term “shotgun a twisted tea” for us oldsters who knew how to swill one down.


32 posted on 07/29/2023 3:12:34 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I looked it up. Look at this YouTube video.

I don't know what a Twisted Tea is, but it sounds like it might be some kind of beer.

33 posted on 07/29/2023 3:17:17 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: EEGator


"I lived outside Philly"


I think I see the problem.. 😜
34 posted on 07/29/2023 5:21:52 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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All those Flintstones cartoons using animal for tools or appliances were animal cruelty.


35 posted on 07/29/2023 7:51:14 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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