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.
Young gators can leave a mark.
“They leave a mark.”
Show us on the doll where they hurt you.
My skull jelly.
“...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).
LOL, no I pee standing up.
I forgot about her. Her husband is alive now, right?
“...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.
Okay. That was certainly quite the crew of people.
True dumpster fire.
I thought it was a all fake at first.
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.
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.
:)
Ok someone define the modern term “shotgun a twisted tea” for us oldsters who knew how to swill one down.
I don't know what a Twisted Tea is, but it sounds like it might be some kind of beer.
"I lived outside Philly"
All those Flintstones cartoons using animal for tools or appliances were animal cruelty.
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