Florida has an estimated 1 million gators, or one for every 17 Floridians. There have been 3 fatal attacks in the last week, and many nuisance visits by the toothsome reptiles onto private yards and even into homes.
A Bradenton woman shot the gator that attacked her dog inside her own home.
A Tampa woman had a gator sit itself on her front porch, barring her exit from the home.
The gator on the porch story reminds me of a joke that circulated around the University of South Florida, my alma mater. It went like this:
How do you get a University of Florida graduate off your front porch?
Pay him for the pizza ;-)
Bwaaahaaahaaa!
ReplyDeleteThat picture is hilarious!
I guess that's what one gets for living in a swamp! ;)
Yikes hun...sheesh!.. I once held a baby gator in mah own hands in New Orleans..they are scareyyyyyyyyy lookin thangs!
ReplyDeleteIf thier meat wasn't so tough we wouldn't have so many.
ReplyDeleteThe woman shot the gator 4 times! They have some self-healing thing though and wasn't much affected. It was put back into the nearby lake. Of course, I don't know the caliber of the gun that shot it.
ReplyDeleteBite your tongue. Gun laws can never be too strict ;-)
This is all quite facinating, from a great distance. I never realised how many gaters live in Florida; hey, I thought it was all old people over there (I've seen a few too many US sit-coms).
ReplyDeleteNo one seems to be asking the really tough questions, like: why do the gaters keep eating women? Why do they seem to only visit the homes of women? Are they sexist? What's their problem?
Equally important: with one gater for every 17 humans, how many years before the gaters take over Florida?
qq: Just so long as no gators are invited to the party ;-)
ReplyDeletecaz: you bring up some interesting points. We do have a lot of snow caps (seniors) here, but they don't walk around much, they're always driving on the freeways with their turn signals on ;-)
ReplyDeleteWho knows why gators have so far only attacked women. It's hard for me to fathom a reptilian mind.
We Floridians can take the gators... we're smarter, we have guns, & we know how to use them.