GreyBoy2
Nov 13 2007, 08:23 PM
Man Killed by Gator While Fleeing PoliceQUOTE
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
Nov 13 2007, 08:27 PM
Louchelooker
Nov 14 2007, 06:19 AM
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
Nov 14 2007, 07:01 AM
He did take a "bite" out of crime.
RedBastid
Nov 14 2007, 08:20 AM
so flushing 'em kinda works?!
Bognoz
Nov 14 2007, 10:58 AM
You mean the critter was high on jenkem?
RedBastid
Nov 14 2007, 12:32 PM
he prolly wished he had some, just to git rid of the bad taste...
Hans Conried
Nov 14 2007, 03:04 PM
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
Nov 15 2007, 06:56 AM
guess they killed it, just to put an example...?!
sixela
Nov 15 2007, 09:38 AM
QUOTE(Louchelooker @ Nov 14 2007, 04:19 PM)
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
Nov 15 2007, 10:33 AM
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
Nov 15 2007, 02:31 PM
QUOTE(sixela @ Nov 15 2007, 06:38 PM)
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
Nov 15 2007, 07:15 PM
QUOTE
Nope. It's natural for it to perceive adult humans as something to flee from
Just like Puff The Magic Dragon?
Louchelooker
Nov 16 2007, 02:49 AM
QUOTE(sixela @ Nov 15 2007, 12:38 PM)
QUOTE(Louchelooker @ Nov 14 2007, 04:19 PM)
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
Nov 21 2007, 06:19 PM
QUOTE(sixela @ Nov 15 2007, 09:38 AM)
QUOTE(Louchelooker @ Nov 14 2007, 04:19 PM)
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
Nov 22 2007, 04:00 AM
HA!
louchefabrik
Nov 22 2007, 08:22 AM
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 PrairieThe 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.
Louched Liver
Nov 22 2007, 11:09 AM
How weird, I just saw
that episode on the
extremely red hotel
telly on the way back.
Louched Liver
Nov 22 2007, 11:09 AM
Didn't seem
real smart.
Does seem the
gators knew he
wasn't a crook.
TheGreenOne
Feb 19 2008, 08:03 AM
Louched Liver
Feb 19 2008, 09:12 AM
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
Feb 19 2008, 09:15 AM
God help the folks in Florida if Liver's snake goes feral.
Louched Liver
Feb 19 2008, 09:16 AM
You mean morerer?
Louched Liver
Feb 19 2008, 09:16 AM
I'm about to take
a walk and air it
out.
TheGreenOne
Feb 19 2008, 10:36 AM
Louched Liver
Feb 19 2008, 11:28 AM
"Board member Donna Callaway, meanwhile, called the insertion "a very minimal addition.""
Speakin' of Dinky...
jaded prol
Feb 19 2008, 11:36 AM
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
Feb 19 2008, 11:38 AM
There'd be
real
controversy.
Louched Liver
Feb 19 2008, 11:38 AM
Not like there
ain't.
TheGreenOne
Feb 19 2008, 11:39 AM
They have good reason to be suspicious of evolution. Inbreeding slows the process.
Louched Liver
Feb 19 2008, 01:21 PM
Lemme look out
the window...
Louched Liver
Feb 19 2008, 01:21 PM
...yup.
greeneyes
Feb 19 2008, 05:20 PM
QUOTE(TheGreenOne @ Feb 19 2008, 01:36 PM)
QUOTE
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
Feb 19 2008, 06:05 PM
I've apparently given the edumacational system way more credit that it deserves.
But I fear that I can give it no less.
greeneyes
Feb 19 2008, 06:13 PM
Can I quote you on that?
I'll cite you.
A.B. Normal
Feb 19 2008, 06:28 PM
What's mine is yours.
And we'll leave it at that.
TheGreenOne
Feb 20 2008, 04:08 PM
Only In Florida Fun
QUOTE
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
Feb 20 2008, 04:40 PM
Figgers.
Crosby
Feb 22 2008, 03:24 PM
TheGreenOne
Feb 22 2008, 03:26 PM
Liver and a co-ed?
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