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Not a joke - Man charged with feeding a gator after it bit his hand off

JerryBobCoJerryBobCo Posts: 8,227 Senior Member
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You can't make this stuff up.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/29/florida-man-who-lost-hand-charged-with-feeding-gator/
Jerry

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  • orchidmanorchidman Posts: 8,435 Senior Member
    #2
    You got to hand it to the wildlife officers, allegations were made so they shot the alligator.

    Someone must have 'fingered' that particular alligator.
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  • JerryBobCoJerryBobCo Posts: 8,227 Senior Member
    #3
    orchidman wrote: »
    You got to hand it to the wildlife officers, allegations were made so they shot the alligator.

    Someone must have 'fingered' that particular alligator.

    Sounds like a croc to me, Alec.
    Jerry

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  • BufordBuford Posts: 6,724 Senior Member
    #4
    He gets to pay for stupid twice. I bet he wont feed them again.
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  • Big ChiefBig Chief Posts: 32,995 Senior Member
    #5
    Nothing like adding a little insult to injury :tooth:

    He really should have known better being an Everglades Airboat tour guide, but you gotta HAND it to the Possum Police..........:rotflmao::rotflmao:
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  • NCFUBARNCFUBAR Posts: 4,324 Senior Member
    #6
    Buford wrote: »
    He gets to pay for stupid twice. I bet he wont feed them again.

    On the other hand he might ...
    “The further a society drifts from truth ... the more it will hate those who speak it."
    - George Orwell
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  • SirGeorgeKillianSirGeorgeKillian Posts: 5,463 Senior Member
    #7
    I gotta hand it to him, that was pretty dumb
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  • orchidmanorchidman Posts: 8,435 Senior Member
    #8
    NCFUBAR wrote: »
    On the other hand he might ...

    :spittingcoffee:
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  • SirGeorgeKillianSirGeorgeKillian Posts: 5,463 Senior Member
    #9
    And I bet next time he thinks about feeding gators alone, he will ask someone to give him a hand...
    Unless life also hands you water and sugar, your lemonade is gonna suck!
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  • SirGeorgeKillianSirGeorgeKillian Posts: 5,463 Senior Member
    #10
    Well, I hope the fine doesn't cost him an arm and a leg!
    Unless life also hands you water and sugar, your lemonade is gonna suck!
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  • jbp-ohiojbp-ohio Posts: 10,932 Senior Member
    #11
    Moron was endangering other people teaching an alligator to associate people with food. Glad the gator did bite the hand that feeds him....
    "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." Thomas Jefferson
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Posts: 2,725 Senior Member
    #12
    As breamfisher will confirm I'm sure, the biggest problem that we have with gators here in Fla'dah is the dums---s that insist on feeding them! We have major injuries and deaths every year with people feeding the damn things, and it's not the big 10ft+ gator that will attack you it's the little 8 foot ones usually. People don't realize it, but a gator can go from zero to about 35MPH for 25-30 or so feet. Feeding and messing around with gators is about as dangerous as substituting a broken beer bottle for toilet paper :yikes: I live 142 feet from a 6,000 acre lake that has the 2nd highest gator population in the state. A gator comes in my yard....he's guaranteed to be a 3-S client....along with Cottonmouths. I'm not loosing another yard dog to one if I can help it, and I'm damn well not having my Grandkids at risk!
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  • SlanteyedshootistSlanteyedshootist Posts: 3,947 Senior Member
    #13
    What is the sound of one hand clapping?
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  • LMLarsenLMLarsen Posts: 8,337 Senior Member
    #14
    Roughly the same as one gator crapping.
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  • coolgunguycoolgunguy Posts: 6,637 Senior Member
    #15
    On the one hand, you have a guy trying to help nature along. On the other hand.....you have a gator!


    Gonna have to knuckle down on those gators...can't have them biting the hand that feeds 'em.
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  • TeachTeach Posts: 18,428 Senior Member
    #16
    If he was gonna feed the gator his hand, why waste a perfectly good fish in the process?
    Jerry
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  • SirGeorgeKillianSirGeorgeKillian Posts: 5,463 Senior Member
    #17
    See post number 6
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  • tennmiketennmike Posts: 27,457 Senior Member
    #18
    Well, at least now he can get a hook installed and be ready for "Talk Like a Pirate Day". :tooth:
    If he gets the hook installed, he'd best be careful which 'hand' he uses to scratch his behind, though! :silly:
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  • JerryBobCoJerryBobCo Posts: 8,227 Senior Member
    #19
    tennmike wrote: »
    Well, at least now he can get a hook installed and be ready for "Talk Like a Pirate Day". :tooth:
    If he gets the hook installed, he'd best be careful which 'hand' he uses to scratch his behind, though! :silly:

    Maybe he'll get lucky and scratch his eyes with the hook, then he can wear an eye patch as well.
    Jerry

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  • orchidmanorchidman Posts: 8,435 Senior Member
    #20
    Slanteyedshootist wrote: »
    What is the sound of one hand clapping?

    I dont know, but it does limit his options when 'face palming'.................
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