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Sanibel rethinks its experiment in gator tolerance
Yahoo News
| 2/23/05
| Jacqui Goddard, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Posted on 02/23/2005 9:42:27 AM PST by Victor
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"Can we live with alligators? Certainly that was the ideal, and I wouldn't say we had a failed policy...."
Why are environmentalists so devoid of common sense?
I mean these things will drag you down the side of the pond and into the water, where they will EAT you. Jeez...
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posted on
02/23/2005 9:42:31 AM PST
by
Victor
To: Victor
"Why can't we all get along....?"
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posted on
02/23/2005 9:52:39 AM PST
by
astounded
(We don't need no stinkin' rules of engagement...)
To: Victor
We live on a golf course in Florida. They caught a 10 1/2 foot gator in the water hazard across the street from us. And in the park around the corner there are 12 footers that often sun themselves.
In our neck of the woods they don't really declare them nuisance gators unless they're agressive (i.e. don't bolt for the water when a person approaches) or if they've killed a dog. (This particular one had killed a boxer and was dragging it around the lake, kids don't play near the hazards, but I do get worried if a golfer decides to reach into the water to retrieve his ball.)
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posted on
02/23/2005 9:58:21 AM PST
by
dawn53
To: Victor
It's a very tough situation....people are actually taking over the gators territory inch by inch...and they are the ones to suffer....
What is the answer to let the species have their existence too?
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posted on
02/23/2005 10:01:10 AM PST
by
zoobee
(Innocent till PROVEN guilty)
To: dawn53
Yeah. That penalty is MORE than stroke and distance! Ouch!
There isn't a gator shortage, is there?
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posted on
02/23/2005 10:05:00 AM PST
by
RexBeach
To: zoobee
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posted on
02/23/2005 10:05:21 AM PST
by
Dark Skies
("The sleeper must awaken!")
To: dawn53
Yeah. That penalty is MORE than stroke and distance! Ouch!
There isn't a gator shortage, is there?
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posted on
02/23/2005 10:05:24 AM PST
by
RexBeach
To: astounded
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posted on
02/23/2005 10:05:37 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
To: Victor
The J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island is also home to the northernmost crocodile in the US. She has a nest there.
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posted on
02/23/2005 10:05:41 AM PST
by
ORECON
(Condi Rice/Donald Rumsfield - 2008)
To: Victor
Law or no law, any bloody thing that considers me on the menu for the day and comes near me or mine at home, it is dead, dead.
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posted on
02/23/2005 10:07:03 AM PST
by
Ursus arctos horribilis
("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
To: Victor
Whoa, better not vacation down there!
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posted on
02/23/2005 10:10:53 AM PST
by
Al Gator
To: Victor
"Everybody was discussing the killing of the alligators," she says. "I was stunned. Al was part of the landscape, and he never harmed anybody." Sounds like the people in the Poconos who feed the bears.
Then one day they find one in their living room...
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posted on
02/23/2005 10:16:14 AM PST
by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: zoobee
Uhh, yeah, they have their "existence."
Gators are all over Florida and are hardly endangered.
Shoudln't HUMANS have rights too?
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posted on
02/23/2005 10:19:14 AM PST
by
Guillermo
("Now how can a Puerto Rican lose a fly ball in the sun?' - Harry Caray)
To: Victor
Why are environmentalists so devoid of common sense? Perhaps it's because their brains never had chance to fully develop? All those lentils...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348125/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348700/posts
To: Victor
My in-laws had a home on a lake there. When my kids were 2 and 3 they used to play in the back yard..... until I saw a gator watching them. Then they played in the front yard!
That was 28 years ago!
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posted on
02/23/2005 10:20:34 AM PST
by
Grammy
(Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. (JF Cooper))
To: Ursus arctos horribilis
I sometimes fish in a bayou where there are gators, I carry a stainless 357 just for if I need to get rid of a gator who threatens me.
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posted on
02/23/2005 10:20:39 AM PST
by
TXBSAFH
(Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
To: Victor
"Can we live with alligators? Certainly that was the ideal, and I wouldn't say we had a failed policy...."No liberal will EVER admit they were wrong... even when they fight against their own policies, like the wind-turbines killing raptors in CA.
To: Guillermo
What does human rights have to do with what I said? All I said was that we are taking over the territory they lived in....and wish there was a solution to it other than just killing them. You don't like that?
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posted on
02/23/2005 10:22:24 AM PST
by
zoobee
(If you can't feed em...don't breed em. Men....don't want kids? Don't have sex.)
To: nunya bidness
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posted on
02/23/2005 10:22:49 AM PST
by
Howlin
(Free the Eason Jordan Tape!!!)
To: Al Gator
I love chicken fried gator tail nuggets. Tastes like chicken.
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posted on
02/23/2005 10:25:43 AM PST
by
TXBSAFH
(Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
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