Posted on 05/17/2026 5:54:00 AM PDT by Red Badger
An Amtrak train hit a car in northeast Harris County, Texas, injuring an older driver and a boy around 10 or 12 years old (thought to be father and son).
The car edged just past the lowered crossbars and paid no heed to the train's horn. The train was traveling at 60 mph and struck them. It seems from the news report that the conductor later found the vehicle in some sort of body of water. Here's the local authorities on Facebook:
Somehow, the pair survived that.
However, according to ABC13,
The Amtrak train conductor tried to assist following the crash, but was confronted by at least four alligators in the water nearby.
Because, apparently, the sound of a train dragging a ton and a half of steel and fiberglass across the tracks sounds like a dinner bell to alligators.
Sheldon Fire Chief Sidney Webb said the alligators were four and a half to five feet long and were most likely attracted to the movement in the weeds before being scared off.
When rescuers arrived, they were able to pull the man and boy from the car, who were rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
No one on the train was injured in the crash.
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“Then came the alligators...”
Sounds like the start of a refrain from a dark comedy song.
“Little Bobby had been gobbling all day.
3 big bowls of chili, a dozen jelly donuts,
a big box of corny dogs, smothered in cheese and ketchup,
a couple of big ol’ pecan pies with ice cream on top.
“And then Little Bobby waddled down to the swimmin’ hole,
‘cause it was a hot & steamy day..
“Then came the alligators...”
I knew nothing about him either and the name sounds satirical at least to modern ears. Interesting history of this enlightened explorer of the New World:
Cow’s Head in Spanish!.........
“Then came the alligators...”
They come out at night .. . mostly.
They come out in daytime to sun themselves and warm their blood...............
When I stayed at an AirBNB in a rural part of SE Oklahoma a few years ago, a neighborhood sign on the way in warned to “Beware the snakes and alligators.” I thought it was a joke but was informed the alligators there were real.
They'll spread and behave like any exotic species, because in the systems they'll invade, that's what they will be.
Scientists have no idea what constitutes "Natural" because it is a latter day construction that operates in antipathy with the manner in which Indians managed this continent for so long that to pretend it will "go back" to the self-optimizing system it supposedly was is simply biologically impossible after the selective systems Indians applied for so long, ESPECIALLY after introducing so many extracontinental species. The entire food chain adapted and bred according to their set of anthropogenic management ethics. "Evolution" is not reversible; natural selection is subject to the second law of thermodynamics.
What's not to love?
Works for me!
“What you mean ‘we’, kemo sabe?”
:)
Glamorous coed takes insane graduation pics of her kissing 14-foot alligator
https://nypost.com/2026/05/17/us-news/glamorous-coed-takes-insane-graduation-pics-with-alligator/
Ping!.....
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