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Reporting safely from Denver. LOL! The Villages? Probably wanted to borrow a golf cart. Target store? Just lookin' for a trans-reptile toilet facility. Sounds like they need to cull some gators who were saved from near extinction (ahem!) not that long ago. Well, I can tell you that in FL or LA, if there's water, there could be gators. There were thousands of them out on KSC property and they seem to know they are safe there. You can tell by there toothy smiles.
1 posted on 05/04/2018 8:04:23 AM PDT by rktman
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Gators are no big deal here in Florida. We have 2 ponds in our sub-division, and each has a resident gator. There are clear signs posted on banks “Warning: Alligators present” and “Do not Swim in pond”.

The gators in our ponds are wary of people walking on the trail, and swim away when approached. Main thing is not to feed them, because that is when they become dangerous.


46 posted on 05/04/2018 8:44:02 AM PDT by entropy12 (30 Million low wealth, low skill LEGAL chain migrants in 25 years is growing EXPONENTIALLY..)
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Hey we don't know, maybe there was repression in the land that they came from.

Maybe there were 'gator gangs threatening their lives and they had to flee.

Maybe there was starvation, political opposition and Economic repression there.

We have so much, who are we to deny then equal opportunity to affordable housing in safe neighborhoods?

Surely they deserve free health care and the occasional house pet.

Are our hearts made of stone, or what?

Do I really need the /s?

48 posted on 05/04/2018 8:48:22 AM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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Lake Placid on steroids.


51 posted on 05/04/2018 8:54:44 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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This is what happens when the government decides they need protection. Even now, you have to “win” a lottery for tags to legally hunt them.
54 posted on 05/04/2018 8:56:38 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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No longer an endangered species alligators have lost their fear of man.

IMO, they should be exterminated in urban areas and pushed back into the deep swamps.


56 posted on 05/04/2018 8:58:17 AM PDT by Rebelbase (YETI deathwatch, tick, tick, tick......)
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those Russians will stop at nothing, sending in giant alligators to disrupt the country.


57 posted on 05/04/2018 9:06:07 AM PDT by euram
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Mom and Dad lived in a condo in Pompano Beach. There was a pond that was surrounded by 3 large buildings. A sidewalk circled the pond. My parents condo, on the eighth floor, overlooked the pond.

Dad was having his coffee on his balcony one morning and saw a little old lady walking her small furry dog around the pond. As he watched, a 10 foot gator erupted out of the water, grabbed the dog, yanking the leash out of the old lady’s hand, and took it under the water.

No one knew a gator that large even lived in the water.

Fish and Wildlife tried to find and capture it for a week, but it evaded them.

The association put up warning signs and no one walked around that pond for many years.


67 posted on 05/04/2018 9:25:05 AM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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“The minute that it seen a person it immediately, you now, started to hiss and come toward the person and as I walked over closer to it, it wanted to bite me,” Al Roberts of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said

.. it seen? LOL

69 posted on 05/04/2018 9:31:23 AM PDT by plain talk
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50 crocodiles seized at Heathrow airport
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44006480


70 posted on 05/04/2018 9:37:16 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama)
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I propose that we build The Wall, and have the inner side of it lined with a 100-foot wide moat...filled with these critters.

That’ll solve the problem.


73 posted on 05/04/2018 9:52:28 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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Ugh, if there is one thing I hate it is alligators. Completely skeeves me out.


75 posted on 05/04/2018 9:58:36 AM PDT by riri
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81 posted on 05/04/2018 10:47:14 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Come Hell or High Water - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQNUp9rgjNs&feature=youtu.be)
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Some entrepreneur should start a fast-food franchise based on alligator meat.

Problem solved.

85 posted on 05/04/2018 1:36:02 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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-—started to hiss and come toward the person——

My hiking buddy and I had such an encounter on a very narrow trail on Cumberland Island. The island was once rice patties and now the dikes between the flooded former fields are trails in some locations.

The gator turned toward us and hissed, showing the inside of his white mouth. There was nothing of substance to throw at it. It made no move to leave it’s spot in the sun and clearly wouldn’t move.
we backtracked.....defeated by an alligator and thus added 3 miles to our total for the day through boring woods.

A rule of thumb for gator length is eyes to nostrils x 12. In the photos the distance could be closely approximated to 12 inches meaning the gator was on the order of 12 feet overall.

in the photos we had a good


91 posted on 05/08/2018 10:48:14 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming))
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