Alligator Attacks Our Tractor

[SkyPup]

8 foot 8 inch Gator invades Florida woman's house and is finally caught in her kitchen!!!




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Here is the Live 911 call reporting the gator in the kitchen:

http://media.tbo.com/audio/042208gator911.mp3


OMG!!!! Here is the live capture video ->>>> TOTALLY AWESOME

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[patrick_g]

Originally Posted by SkyPup

No kidding, alligator attacks are 300% more fatal than shark attacks!

Once something is 100% dead how do you make it enough deader to achieve 300%?



I had a medium sized crayfish attack me when I was working the FEL. OK, maybe it didn't attack but it assumed a defensive posture, brandishing its claws menacingly whenever I got close to it. This was after a rain at a house construction site. Gutsy move, considering the size disparity.

Pat

[SkyPup]

Originally Posted by patrick_g

Once something is 100% dead how do you make it enough deader to achieve 300%?

Here is the answer, for every alligator attack and for every shark attack, 300% more people who were attacked by an alligator die than were attacked by a shark.

Shark Attacks Compared To Alligator Attacks

It looks like you have a better chance of surviving a gunshot wound than a gator bite.......

[patrick_g]

Sky, It was supposed to be funny, not a serious question.

Anyway...

It is really a mute issue considering the worldwide alligator and crocodile population is in decline. That and the recent discovery of proteins in the blood of alligators that fight infections that are hard to control with antibiotics. Alligators and Crocks seem to survive grievous wounds that heal while they are living in a veritable broth of pathogens. If these proteins prove difficult or expensive to synthesize then there will extreme pressure on the wild population to supply feedstocks for pharmaceuticals.

And to think I callously ordered two styles of alligator at a restaurant a while back. The spicy Cajun version is darned tasty.

Pat

[tallyho8]

We sure don't have any shortage of gators down here. We have 10 times more than we had 30 years ago.

[YM-135trac]

when riding 4/wheeler in woods, I've seen many usually high-tailing back to their water. just don't get into THEIR WATER. I think they feel unsafe out of water? moma on nest,different story,60' chase one time on 4/wheeler, had to be a moma on nest?-I don't think It wanted me, just chasing me away. Lucky my escape route was not heading toward nest(never saw nest-didn't go back to look!) could have been different story? Dad, as kid, use to make baby(grunt/wine) sound, causing mom to thrash through cane reed and attack, for fun/excitement back in the old day? Said plenty time to get away, reed slowed um down, wouldn't chase you far from nest

[FlaDon]

Originally Posted by patrick_g

Sky, It was supposed to be funny, not a serious question.

Anyway...

It is really a mute issue considering the worldwide alligator and crocodile population is in decline. That and the recent discovery of proteins in the blood of alligators that fight infections that are hard to control with antibiotics. Alligators and Crocks seem to survive grievous wounds that heal while they are living in a veritable broth of pathogens. If these proteins prove difficult or expensive to synthesize then there will extreme pressure on the wild population to supply feedstocks for pharmaceuticals.

And to think I callously ordered two styles of alligator at a restaurant a while back. The spicy Cajun version is darned tasty.

Pat

Gators are not declining around here. Neither are the crocs. I'm 3 miles east of the ENP boundary and just over 10 miles from Turkey Point. Where crocs are using the cooling canals for the nuke plants for breeding. And breeding. And breeding. And gator tail deep fried is good eatin.

[tallyho8]

Originally Posted by FlaDon

And gator tail deep fried is good eatin.

Gator Sauce Piquant is the only way to go.

[YM-135trac]

Originally Posted by patrick_g

Sky, It was supposed to be funny, not a serious question.

Anyway...

It is really a mute issue considering the worldwide alligator and crocodile population is in decline. That and the recent discovery of proteins in the blood of alligators that fight infections that are hard to control with antibiotics. Alligators and Crocks seem to survive grievous wounds that heal while they are living in a veritable broth of pathogens. If these proteins prove difficult or expensive to synthesize then there will extreme pressure on the wild population to supply feedstocks for pharmaceuticals.

And to think I callously ordered two styles of alligator at a restaurant a while back. The spicy Cajun version is darned tasty.

Pat

I wonder if monsanto patent gator blood Yet? I'm sure they have. It's probably tucked away in one of THEIR blanket patents? I guess, If monsanto police caught you rubbing that gator blood on your bo-bo, You would loose tail-eatin privlege and maybe get some hard time too? Truth is stranger than fiction.

[patrick_g]

Ah, so... We will immediately inaugurate a don't ask don't tell policy on pupus (finger snacks.) Just take a piece of this meat, dip it in one of the provided sauces, and enjoy. Don't ask if it is gator and I won't tell you. We can maintain plausible deniability that gator was offered or consumed!

Pat