Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Revenge Of The Gators



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 ;-)

7 comments:

Brooke said...

Bwaaahaaahaaa!

That picture is hilarious!

I guess that's what one gets for living in a swamp! ;)

WomanHonorThyself said...

Yikes hun...sheesh!.. I once held a baby gator in mah own hands in New Orleans..they are scareyyyyyyyyy lookin thangs!

J.M. Seals said...

If thier meat wasn't so tough we wouldn't have so many.

cube said...

The 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.

Bite your tongue. Gun laws can never be too strict ;-)

Caz said...

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).

No 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?

cube said...

qq: Just so long as no gators are invited to the party ;-)

cube said...

caz: 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 ;-)

Who 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.