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 Hornock’s hand, but he will be okay.
A trapper later caught the gator.
My aunt found a way around the interference rule though - she keeps frozen chicken parts in a cooler and throws one near him if he's around. (The greenskeeper feeds him too). This keeps him busy long enough for her to play through.
Post #20 is the way to go.
It's easy.........Take a roasting chicken, thawed, and place a few phenobarbitol or thorazine's(or pretty much anything that ends with "zine".....) under the skin of the chicken. When the gator grabs the chicken, it will take it to the water to eat it. The gator will drown after the drugs kick in and you'll have nobody implicating you. Once a gator hangs around housing, it will only get worse. They are like bears and garbage cans, only the gator eats your dog, cat, or child.
Why do I think a few shots and a six pack were involved?.....
WOW! Is that pic for real???
To catch a bear:
Find an iced over pond. Cut a hole in the ice. Scatter a can of peas around it and when the bear comes out to take a pea run over and kick him in the ice hole.
Yep it's real allright. That bad boy had taken up residence in the culvert.
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