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Man Bitten By Alligator After Trying To Lasso It
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| 8/30/04
Posted on 08/30/2004 7:50:44 AM PDT by harrycarey
Man Bitten By Alligator After Trying To Lasso It
POSTED: 6:44 am EDT August 30, 2004
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- An Orange County man is recovering from injuries after learning a painful lesson about alligators.
Dan Hornock tried to catch a gator in his backyard on Sunday. He lives off Lake Live Oak Drive in the Avalon Park development.
He went after the five-footer, but things didn't go well.
"So I tried to lasso it. I guess you could say, it didn't work," he explains.
"Do not try to remove an alligator yourself. It is absolutely 100 percent avoidable," says Kat Kelley, Florida Fish and Wildlife.
The gator took a bite out of Hornocks hand, but he will be okay.
A trapper later caught the gator.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alligator; gatorbait; holdmubeer; idiot
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To: harrycarey
Another one of John Kerry's hokey Florida campaign stunts goes wrong.
To: shiva
I was wondering what psycho ward the one on the left wandered out of. I mean, if they can't get her to comb her hair for a posed picture...
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posted on
08/30/2004 8:15:29 AM PDT
by
eno_
(Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
To: asgardshill
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posted on
08/30/2004 8:16:01 AM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men are ready to do violence on our behalf)
To: Richard Kimball
Maybe with flechette or dove and quail load. 00 is overkill and pretty much wipes out the eave of the house.
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posted on
08/30/2004 8:17:52 AM PDT
by
asgardshill
(The Republican's best weapon lies midway between John Kerry's nose and lower chin.)
To: Puppage
What's that stain on Kerry's shirt? Is this photoshopped?
To: asgardshill
ahh. the whole forum is in a good mood today.
soo much fun to be had :-)
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posted on
08/30/2004 8:24:59 AM PDT
by
stompk
To: Conspiracy Guy
Some people have watched way too much TV.More like he hasn't watched enough.
Anyone who watches Animal Planet knows that you need at least two guys to lasso a crocodilian. They each pull the animal's head in a different direction to immobilize it.
Then you need at least one more guy (depending on the size of the anumal) to sit on the critter, catch its closed jaws and bind them shut. You might also want to blindfold it at that point.
Believe me, I didn't learn all that from wrassling gators myself.
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posted on
08/30/2004 8:28:09 AM PDT
by
Maceman
(Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
To: stompk
Give me SOME credit - I don't use deer slugs either. Many wasps - one deer slug equals a lot of p*ssed-off little stingers you miss.
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posted on
08/30/2004 8:29:22 AM PDT
by
asgardshill
(The Republican's best weapon lies midway between John Kerry's nose and lower chin.)
To: Maceman
Think about that idiot on the Crocodile Hunter.
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posted on
08/30/2004 8:34:34 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(I'm Conspiracy Guy and I approve this message. "John Kerry is a liar!")
To: Maceman
"And now my faithful assistant Jim will restrain the (insert anything that can kill you in two bites or one kick here) for me to get out of my jeep" - Marlin Perkins, Mutual of Ohaha's "Wild Kingdom"
That segment of the show was the funniest bit of television in the 60's.
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posted on
08/30/2004 8:34:56 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(Hell is an endless hayfield needing to be raked, baled, and put up.)
To: blackdog
The Anaconda fight was a classic as well...Marlin on shoreline..."Hold him Jim! Hold him!"
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posted on
08/30/2004 8:39:09 AM PDT
by
donozark
(I fought at the Battle of Kimchi Ridge. The gas...the gas...it was HORRIBLE!)
To: donozark
And wardrobe wouldn't even clean Jim up. A bruised, bloodied, battered, muddy mess would be Jim. Out would step Marlin Perkins for his cameo.
Absolutely great comedy by accident television.
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posted on
08/30/2004 8:45:05 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(Hell is an endless hayfield needing to be raked, baled, and put up.)
To: Puppage
The thought of those four is frightening. Kerry's wife is uglier than her husband. And Edwards' wife looks like a wrestler.
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posted on
08/30/2004 8:46:46 AM PDT
by
Cobra64
(Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
To: TX Bluebonnet
What's that stain on Kerry's shirt? Is this photoshopped?Ketchup?
To: Richard Kimball
I don't think a 12 guage is enough for a bad boy like this one. From a KTBS helicopter over Cross Lake near Shreveport, LA.
To: harrycarey
All your Gator handbags are belong to us.
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posted on
08/30/2004 10:17:07 AM PDT
by
Shaun_MD
("Condition: Grounded, but determined to try....")
To: UltraKonservativen
Is that dog in the gator's jaws? Thanks.
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posted on
08/30/2004 10:23:13 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(Allah FUBAR!)
To: harrycarey
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posted on
08/30/2004 10:24:59 AM PDT
by
asgardshill
(The Republican's best weapon lies midway between John Kerry's nose and lower chin.)
To: dennisw
Looks like a whitetail deer to me. That's some big gator.
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posted on
08/30/2004 10:29:32 AM PDT
by
asgardshill
(The Republican's best weapon lies midway between John Kerry's nose and lower chin.)
To: asgardshill
Looks like a whitetail deer to me. That's some big gator......
Amazing and you must be right. The huge alligators are in the wild where they can go deer hunting. We have gator incidents here but the alligators are typically 7 feet at the most and animal caught is small dog. It can happen but very rarely a small child.
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posted on
08/30/2004 10:32:50 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(Allah FUBAR!)
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