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Originally Posted by OldDave
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Second, most Americans live in places where there simply are no animals capable of hunting them. Some people in mountainous areas have bears, cougars and a few other things big enough to kill them,but to most people it just never occurs to them to be cautious. Sure they might try to avoid snakes and spiders and such, but most of them are hiding somewhere so you just need to look out for them. Even the buffalo someone mentioned won't come looking for you. But it never occurs that there might be something actually considering you as prey.
Finally my daughter had a good comment about the adult that told those kids that the gator was fake. She said they should feed him to the gators.
It is too bad. An adult should realize just how deadly these things could be.
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Old Dave, my sentiments exactly. We've lost respect for nature and it's wild critters because we have lived in protective enviornments for so long.
Recently there has been a rash of venonmous snake bites; people think they can reach under a bush and weed or as I use to do, walk in the grass barefooted (until I ran into fire ants) without using caution. I use to live in South Florida and there was a case about a lady jogger who ran the same park path each day. One day a huge gator attacked and dragged her into the pond. The consensus was that he stalked her and found his opportunity. Today I saw a snapping turtle trying to cross the cart path with lots of traffic. As I approached the turtle a lady stopped and said be careful it's a snapping turtle and she pushed it along with her foot. I, on the other hand would have picked it up being ignorant about turtles. There is so much to learn living in this beautiful, lush enviornment and I fall in love with the beauty all around me on a daily basis.