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This happened just up the road from us. While people absolutely need to understand that any body of water no matter how small here holds at least 1 gator, if the Spanish Lakes community HOA didn't have warning signs posted and they can prove that their staff had been feeding it, they'll probably win this suit.Suit filed a year after 85-year-old Florida woman killed in alligator attack
Nearly a year after an 85-year-old Florida woman was dragged into a pond and killed by an alligator, her family is suing the community where the attack happened.
Eh . . . not so fast. Did she live in the senior community? If so, she should have been aware of the presence of gators, assumption of the risk and all that. However, I will say if the staff had been feeding the gator, which I have seen at least 100 signs not to do so, her family would have a better case. But I am of the view that if you live near water in Florida, you have to be aware at all times.
Wondering who will get that reference
Does she think your dad is a Leprechaun?
So, Beta then lol. Hooper and Sharky's Machine were some others by Burt. My Dad would hook two Betamax machines up and play on one and record on the other. Did the same for vhs. We had a huge collection of movies. Good times.
Remember before VHS, before DVD's, before streaming and digital (and piracy), when you waited for years before a theater movie finally premiered on network TV? That's how us poors got to watch most big-screen movies.
The funny thing is, I remember "Gator" most for the very obvious overdubs of cusswords when it appeared on network TV.
I'm shocked (and somewhat skeptical) that Spanish Lakes didn't have signs out. When we were looking at places here, I always checked out and asked about the bass fishing in the community pond, and I never saw one that didn't have at least one sign about the danger of alligators and emphatically said not to feed them. If they didn't have a sign and can prove that the staff had been feeding them, they'll probably win their suit.
It’s only going to get worse as more people move to areas like FL and develop the lands they inhibit.
Or pythons. I wonder which species will eventually take over Florida. My money is on the pythons. They reproduce more.
Not just no, but HELL no. South Carolina either, at least near the coast.
“Only two things I’m scared of. Women and the police”.
Serious question: given how thick an alligators skin is, and just their general "toughness", would one blast from a 12 gauge (00 buckshot) stop a large gator in it's tracks, or would it take more?
Watching one of those gator shows a while back I'm pretty sure they were killing them with a 22. Guess it depends on where you shoot them.
I know nothing about it, but I did a search. People do kill them with 22 magnum rounds, but one article suggested a little more bang like a 38 plus P. I reckon there is a hard spot on their head where a 22 might just bounce off. Evidently there is a sweet spot target about the size of a baseball.
...or even a fully automatic rifle, like the albino alligator scene in Annihilation?
What about where it gets so cold you can literally die? Because I was in Kentucky the last two weeks and that was some bullshit ass weather, let me tell you.
Also, one bonus to temperatures THAT cold, as a school bus driver, is that I can withhold heat on the bus as punishment/incentive to behave. You KNOW me, and that I'm not above that. LOL
