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Posted on 11/14/2007 4:56:06 PM PST by glock rocks
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That’s bad.
there is swift justice for some and none for others...
Fleeing Robbery Suspect Eaten By Alligator
MIAMI -- A Florida man police said was breaking into cars at Miccosukee Resort and Gaming was attacked and killed by a 9-foot alligator while trying to run from police.
Investigators said officers responded to reports of car break-ins at a Miccosukee Indian Reservation parking lot located at 500 S.W. 177th Ave. in Miami.
One of the men was quickly captured by officers during the incident last week but the other robbery suspect tried to elude officer by jumping into a large pond behind the facility, according to a WJXT-TV report.
During the swim, police said, an alligator attacked and killed the man. He was apparently bitten on the head several times.
The victim's body was recovered at the bottom of the pond about a day after the reported break-ins.
The men were not identified in the report.
Meanwhile, an alligator believed responsible for attacking and then killing the man was captured and transported to All American Gator in Pembroke Park.
"Some alligators just have a nasty disposition and he was just a nasty gator," owner of All American Gator Brian Woods said. "He seemed to have no fear of people."
The alligator is being kept in storage until the medical examiner's office can inspect the reptile, a trapper said.
Miccosukee employees said the alligator was well-known on the reservation and was given the nickname "Poncho."
"Anytime an alligator digests or even kills a person, it is a state law through the Florida Fish and Game that the gator be destroyed," Woods said.
See ya when I get back from Twin x 2
Thanks, WCG! Just ain’t gonna be the same.....
Destroyed? ... hell, they ought to deputize him.
Nice pic. The youngun just can’t wait to far up the new Honda snowthrower. Keep snow off the slab, and dad’s happy. The kid wants a couple feet. Now!
great article. Thanks.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Here's a sobering thought: Hundreds of bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey, some of it almost 100 years old, may be unceremoniously poured down a drain because authorities suspect it was being sold by someone without a license.
Officials seized 2,400 bottles late last month during warehouse raids in Nashville and Lynchburg, the southern Tennessee town where the whiskey is distilled.
That’s just wrong!
Our dear friend Ruby renewed her Cal drivers license today. She is 94 and as sharp as they come. If my 86 year old brother live here were it would be a match made in the geriatric ward...
That’s great! Wife’s grandmother is 97, but she doesn’t drive anymore.
I need some help GR. The comments did not link with the rest of the link...
AWESOME Article about Rick Hendrick from Nascar.com
MIAMI — Rick Hendrick was tired of listening to them bicker. It was late in the 2005 season, and the once-promising title hopes of Jimmie Johnson, who fell from first to fifth in the final five races, had crumbled. The once-unshakable relationship between the young driver and Chad Knaus, his intense crew chief, had developed fractures. One day in the Hendrick Motorsports shop the two were clashing again, and their championship car owner had heard enough.
So he called them up to his office, where he set out a box of cookies and a gallon of milk. If they were going to act like children, then they were going to be treated like children. The message delivered, he sat them down and brokered a truce. Johnson learned to speak up. Knaus learned to cool down. And the bond between the two, now on the brink of their second consecutive championship in NASCAR’s premier series, improved as a result.
“I’d been down that road before, with Harry Hyde and Geoff Bodine and countless other drivers and crew chiefs,” Hendrick said Thursday during interviews previewing Sunday’s Nextel Cup season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. “But it’s probably the first time I’ve seen one that was going that far south turn and do that well.”
We’ve had this situation before. I have no idea...
Prayers for his family.
Prayers up.
Now then, if I were to comment, it would be along the lines of: the better half of y’all are poopooheads. Or something. It is California. Fortunately for us, we have the Norks and Torks and JR’s keepin an eye on things for us there.
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