Fla. wildlife officer loses gator at show and tell

AP on Yahoo ^ | 10/30/09 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. – Officials say a Florida Panhandle Fish and Wildlife officer lost a 5-foot alligator after bringing it to his daughter's school for show and tell. Searchers scoured a wooded area surrounding the school Friday afternoon. The alligator jumped out of the man's vehicle Friday morning. The animal's mouth was taped.

[NormsRevenge]

Hope the gator gets the tape loose..

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What's the craziest thing ya ever brought to Show and Tell?

[NormsRevenge]

original source

Gator gets loose after show and tell in PCB

http://www.newsherald.com/news/alligator-78680-one-florida.html

[SouthTexas]

They better hope they used cheap duct tape!

[buccaneer81]

Hope the gator gets the tape loose..

Not me! We go to PCB twice a year, our next trip is in two weeks.

[Texas Eagle]

Officials say a Florida Panhandle Fish and Wildlife officer lost a 5-foot alligator after bringing it to his daughter's school for show and tell.

Great. And to think this is the caliber of people who will be running our health care system.

[goseminoles]

There are things and people waaay more dangerous than that gator in PC.

[GeronL]

Kinda sad Mouth taped. No way to survive like that. Not a chance.

[buccaneer81]

There are things and people waaay more dangerous than that gator in PC.

Oh, I know, believe me. PC has far more human vermin than PCB. And as a golfer, I fear cotton mouths far more than gators.

[Man50D]

You lost a what?????????

[Man50D]

And as a golfer, I fear cotton mouths far more than gators.

All the more reason to keep it on the fairway.

[GladesGuru]

Government trough feeders are not known for intelligence.

[DocH]

Fish and Wildlife Spokesman Stan Kirkland says alligators have "amazing" jumping ability and that allowed it to escape

You'd think that the goofball would have a wild animal with an "amazing jumping ability" in a container/cage to KEEP IT FROM JUMPING.

Blame it on Bush.

[Pylon]

Hopefully if he finds his way into some water the tape will get soggy and come off.

[buccaneer81]

All the more reason to keep it on the fairway.

True. I spend more on balls in Florida than I do in Ohio.

[naturalman1975]

I remember a boy brought his ‘skull collection’.

All labelled. All sorts of Australian animals.

“Kangaroo”.

“Koala”.

etc.

He finally ended with:

“Fluffy the Cat”

and a row of smaller skulls:

“Fluffy’s Kittens”.

Our teacher got really angry for some reason at these. Caned him. Didn’t seem to mind up until that point.

[naturalman1975]

Same teacher. I showed off my late father’s war medals. The teacher confiscated them because they were too valuable for a boy my age to have charge of. It took years before I got them back.

[Eagle Eye]

You must know my wife’s ex’s new wife.

exwifelinlaw?

[GladesGuru]

“Fish and Wildlife Spokesman Stan Kirkland says alligators have “amazing” jumping ability and that allowed it to escape”

That ‘Possum Policeman should have taped the legs, as well - standard procedure for transporting ‘gators.

Aside from the humor of a mere reptile escaping from the truck of a “Statewide Law Enforcement” ossifer, one can’t help wondering about the wisdom of allowing all the “armed and rangerous” to prowl the streets with guns and little competence and less awareness of the Constitution.

[DocH]

one can’t help wondering about the wisdom of allowing all the “armed and rangerous” to prowl the streets with guns and little competence and less awareness of the Constitution.

They're not all bad.

For example, remember the "professional" job the Fort Marcy Park Rangers did in the Vince Foster "suicide" case investigation during the Clinton Reign Of Terror? :)