[small_l_libertarian]

Oh, my goodness! I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Obviously, very poor judgement on the bus driver's part. However, what fun for the boys!

(I know - it was stupid. Any flames will be ignored. It was still cool, though.)

[mrs tiggywinkle]

**Obviously, very poor judgement on the bus driver's part. However, what fun for the boys! **

Very true.

[BJClinton]

Obviously, very poor judgement on the bus driver's part.

I'm not flaming you here, but why was it poor judgement? It was a 4-foot alligator on land. Hardly dangerous considering these kids were from FL and grew up around them. The boys obviously knew how to handle a 'gator.

[Fledermaus]

It wasn't stupid. Regardless of what the bus driver did, after school those boys would have been gone back and tried to find the alligator. They are boys.

I talked to my mom last night and we got into a discussion about kids today (like her grandkids and my neices and nephews) and she, a far left liberal, admitted you can't stop boys.

She said that by today's standards we three boys of hers would have been taken away to foster homes. Most of the time from my age of 7-15 she had no idea where I was or what I was doing. We played in an old barn (I got seriously cut sliding down a rusty tin roof), explored forest, river bottoms, caves and water drainage tunnels in Calif. and climbed cliffs and got ticks and chiggers in the fields of Ark!

What fun!