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[GreyBoy2]

Man Killed by Gator While Fleeing Police

Man Killed by Gator While Fleeing Police
3 hours ago

MICCOSUKEE TRIBE INDIAN RESERVATION, Fla. (AP) — A man who jumped into a lake to flee police was killed by an alligator more than 9-feet long, officials said Tuesday.

The man, whose name has not been released, was allegedly burglarizing a vehicle in the parking lot of the Miccosukee Resort and Convention Center on Thursday. He ran when police arrived at the scene, said Dexter Lehtinen, one of the tribe's police legal advisors.

Tribal police divers searched for the man that night, then again Friday morning and afternoon. During the third dive, the body was recovered. It bore alligator teeth marks on the upper torso.

The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner Department said the cause of death was an alligator attack.

An accomplice in the alleged burglary has been arrested. The Miccosukee tribe, which is not obligated to follow Florida's open records laws, declined to release his name. Without a name, the Miami-Dade state attorney's office was unable to comment on whether the man has been charged.

The alligator believed to be responsible for the death has been killed. A coroner was scheduled to examine the 9-foot-3 reptile Wednesday for human hair or skin, said Brian Wood, owner of All American Gator Products, which is storing the gator in a cooler for now. It will then be incinerated or buried, he said.

A sign at the lake warns people: "Danger Live Alligators." Wood said in other alligator habitats, signs also warn people not to feed the creatures.

"They become too comfortable being around humans and they equate humans to food," Wood said. "Generally if a gator sees a person, he goes the other way, he goes down, he hides. This gator was aggressive, not afraid of people."

[GreyBoy2]

"Poncho"

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[Louchelooker]

Why'd they kill the gator that
ate the scumbag criminal? The
gator was just doing what came
naturally to it in its own habitat
and he did all of us a favor to
boot. They shoulda given the
gator a gator treat or something,
you know like a Scooby snack.

[Kirk]

He did take a "bite" out of crime.

[RedBastid]

so flushing 'em kinda works?!

Edited by RedBastid, 14 November 2007 - 08:20 AM.

[Bognoz]

You mean the critter was high on jenkem?

[RedBastid]

he prolly wished he had some, just to git rid of the bad taste...

Edited by RedBastid, 15 November 2007 - 06:55 AM.

[Hans Conried]

1 alligator for 1 human? The Animal Kingdom got the short end in that deal. Why didn't it get probation for the first person it killed, then maybe after it killed 3-4 more, spend 6yrs on an alligator farm exhausting its appeals?


Think I'll have a little memorial service for the alligator tonight.

[RedBastid]

guess they killed it, just to put an example...?!

[sixela]

Why'd they kill the gator that
ate the scumbag criminal? The
gator was just doing what came
naturally to it in its own habitat

Nope. It's natural for it to perceive adult humans as something to flee from.

[Bognoz]

Whereas penguins are naturally inclined
to seek-out and destroy errors where-ever
they lurk. Well, sometimes they don't
bother with the really juvenile ones.

[RedBastid]

Nope. It's natural for it to perceive adult humans as something to flee from.

steve irvine would surely have agreed up on that, if he wasn't killed by a fish that was also supposed to perceive humans as something to flee from...

[Kirk]

Nope. It's natural for it to perceive adult humans as something to flee from

Just like Puff The Magic Dragon?

[Louchelooker]

Why'd they kill the gator that
ate the scumbag criminal? The
gator was just doing what came
naturally to it in its own habitat

Nope. It's natural for it to perceive adult humans as something to flee from.

I meant eating when the opportunity
presented itself. I ain't never seen
a gator eat a penguin but I bet that
would be a hoot. Not natural but
a hoot.

[Crosby]

Why'd they kill the gator that
ate the scumbag criminal? The
gator was just doing what came
naturally to it in its own habitat

Nope. It's natural for it to perceive adult humans as something to flee from.

I think you're thinking of the French.

[Louchelooker]

HA!

[louchefabrik]

Speaking of begging to be eaten by gators....This doofus came near where I live to push the whole natural selection thing to its limits!
Jeff Corwin in the Paynes Prairie

The actual program showed him swimming in the La chua sink(hole) teeming with gators. I've seen it at breeding time in the spring, quite awesome and not the time to go for a swim.

Edited by louchefabrik, 22 November 2007 - 08:33 AM.

[Louched Liver]

How weird, I just saw
that episode on the
extremely red hotel
telly on the way back.

[Louched Liver]

Didn't seem
real smart.

Does seem the
gators knew he
wasn't a crook.

[TheGreenOne]

Deltona officials lift ban on deadly snakes as pets

[Louched Liver]

Even more reason to
stay outtah the tall
grass.

If they'd made him
get rid of them, I'm
sure they'd end up
"wild".

[A.B. Normal]

God help the folks in Florida if Liver's snake goes feral.

[Louched Liver]

You mean morerer?

[Louched Liver]

I'm about to take
a walk and air it
out.

[TheGreenOne]

Florida Has A New Theory

[Louched Liver]

"Board member Donna Callaway, meanwhile, called the insertion "a very minimal addition.""

Speakin' of Dinky...

[jaded prol]

Whatever. It, like Gravity is a "theory."

I think if they just referred to it a Developmental Biology there wouldn't be any fake controversy.


The primitive primates prevelant in the south have been fighting evolution for a long time.

[Louched Liver]

There'd be
real
controversy.

[Louched Liver]

Not like there
ain't.

[TheGreenOne]

They have good reason to be suspicious of evolution. Inbreeding slows the process.

[Louched Liver]

Lemme look out
the window...

[Louched Liver]

...yup.

[greeneyes]

Florida Has A New Theory

Florida's current standards require the teaching of evolution using code words like "change over time."

I get these poor babies on Day 1 of Adulthood.
The majority of them leave me knowing why proof is antithetical to science and what makes a theory useful.

[A.B. Normal]

I've apparently given the edumacational system way more credit that it deserves.
But I fear that I can give it no less.

[greeneyes]

Can I quote you on that?
I'll cite you.

[A.B. Normal]

What's mine is yours.
And we'll leave it at that.

[TheGreenOne]

Only In Florida Fun

Swarms of fleas from a deserted Deltona, Fla., home are infesting a residential area, reportedly covering people's entire bodies when they go outside.

Fleas and rats are eating fallen fruit near the deserted home and invading the yards of nearby homeowners, WKMG-TV, Orlando, Fla., reported Wednesday.

"I walked through, into the backyard and walked back into my house and I was covered from head to toe with fleas. The fleas come from the lawn, rats and dogs they didn't take care of," neighbor Leslie Larson told the television station.

City officials reportedly said the owner of the abandoned home isn't in violation of any laws by having the fleas and rats in the yard.

[Louched Liver]

Figgers.

[Crosby]

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[TheGreenOne]

Liver and a co-ed?

[Crosby]

...™

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[mthuilli]

"Everywhere else, it's just stupid"

[sixela]

On my McDonalds coffee container yesterday morning: "Caution: hot liquid".

[absinthist]

They write the same bullxit in Polsnad, now onder, it is Mc Donadlsd' after all

[Crosby]

That's 'cuz some fucktard sued and won.

"How wuz I supposed to know my coffee was hot? No one warned me."

[G&C]

Those people don't deserve to swim in the gene pool.

[louchefabrik]

If you haven't figured out that the coffee is hot, swim with the gators! That'll thin the herd!

[Louchelooker]

As far as the hot coffee suit goes....the thing that makes me the maddest is that noone stood up to the jackass and said, "hey dumbass, the coffee is hot. If you don't know that then that is your problem." The courts let this happen and it opened up the litigious society that we live in today. Well, I don't know if it opened it up, but it sure made the headlines and people said hey I'll jump on that bandwagon.

[Kirk]

We ought to sue her.

[Louched Liver]

Florida was SOOOOO
much fun I'm back in
Allentown for good.

[Kirk]

Livah!

[Rimbaud]

Good news!

[Louched Liver]

Ways got parted, but it's great
to be back in civilization.

[Hans Conried]

These things happen.

Welcome home.

[Kirk]

Yeah, that is rough, I feel for you Liver.


You don't happen to have her phone # handy do ya?

[Louched Liver]

Yeah, have fun w/that...

[DrinkSlinger]

I've been following your "fun" through the miracles of myspace.

That shit sucks, but as you once again found out, you gotta put it all out there. Otherwise you're a pussy.

[GreyBoy2]

Sorry to hear Mike,
at least being back in civilization will be good for what little sanity you have.

[Kirk]

Just teasing you, sorry about that, it's like a nervous laugh.

[Louched Liver]

I know that.
I meant have fun
if you make the
hook up.

Worked out great
for me.

[Kirk]

I've already got too many irons in the fire.

[Rimbaud]

How many irons do you have?

What are you, Octoman?!

[Kirk]

Woops, I meant; I already have my iron in too many fires.

[Rimbaud]

Whew!

[Raindog]

Not many spiders in A-town uncle J.