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Originally Posted by Maker
Maybe you should move to a swamp. You wold see lots of alligators. Then the rest of us can make our homes safer here for us, our family, and visitors.
Nobody expects to step onto their porch and have an alligator hiding there. It never happened to him before, and listening to your excuses, he was stupid, foolish, and should have known better. Hogwash. That's the exact type of way accidents happen - when a combination of conditions come together exactly right... dark, location, timing, something unexpected, past history, alertness, distractions.
We cannot do anything other than remove the gators here that would be as effective preventing an attack or killing.
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Maybe I should move??? That makes no sense at all. I like it here, just the way was when I moved here, just the way it is now. If you don't like it here then there are other places to be. I, and others, do like it here. If you are afraid to live here then there are other places to live. I, and others, are not afraid. Why did you move to Florida if you are so afraid of Florida? Why did you move here and expect "here" to change to suit you?
Nobody expects.... So far only one person has experienced and he didn't live in the Villages. A couple others have pictures due to their ring cameras. Let's kill all the alligators because one was in the wrong place at the wrong time. And yes, if the individual had turned on a light and looked first they would have seen the alligator, grabbed their phone, taken a picture, and delighted their friends. They didn't do that. They got bit and the alligator got killed.
We CAN do something more effective than removing the alligators, we can learn from your reality show and be more aware of our surroundings. We can look for alligators or snakes or dogs or raccoons or panthers before stepping onto a dark porch. We can stay back from the edge of the water. We can simply be more alert.
Killing the one alligator that bit the 85 year old woman or the three others from that development or the one from Daytona Beach or even all those in the Villages is only a temporary fix. The alligator was removed from the pond at Brownwood a few years ago and now another has taken its place. This is Florida, there are alligators, learn to live with them or live somewhere else.
And as I and others have pointed out, you have the wrong focus. Dogs cause 90 times more deaths than alligators and mosquitoes cause even more. There are around 800 deaths due to automobiles every week (100,000 TIMES more than alligators) yet I bet you rode in a car or bicycled on a road or went for a walk at least once in the last week. If it is human life you care about then spend some time fighting to save 100+ people from dog deaths or 100,000+ people from car deaths that are likely to happen before you hear of another death caused by an alligator.