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However we back on a couple of small ponds. And all day long golfers go to the water's edge trying to retrieve lost balls. It's amazing. The ponds are small, but we've seen a gator in one of them. |
I must say that I was extra careful playing golf near the water today.
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Your friend Gary. I hope he is ok, but why risk this for a couple of bucks or did he not care or realize it is dangerous around water in Fl?????
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I gotta believe that most all of us golfers have at some point gone within several feet of waters edge to hit a retrieve a ball. Trying to save a couple bucks is not the issue..speaking for myself, I'm playing golf and if my ball is found or playable in what I thought would be a safe distance from waters edge then that's where I would have been. Not anymore. As posted, the gator was not visible and it leaped out of the water. Again, speaking for myself, I wouldn't have thought that a gator would have been that aggressive to have been hiding so to speak and then spring out to attack.
I thank the OP for this wake up call. |
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The villages is a set up for an alligator attack. There is too much water, too many alligators, and too many unsuspecting people for it to be otherwise. anyone who sees an alligator over 4 feet in a location where people are coming and going, may report it as a nuisance alligator. In my opinion this should be a common practice to keep golf course and backyard water as free of them as possible.
866-392-gator is the nuisance alligator hotline. The fish and wildlife commission will contact the CDD for permission to enter the property. |
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Did someone pee on the wound to sanitize it ? :jester: |
IT'S ALLIGATOR MATING SEASON!!! THEY LAY THEIR EGGS AT THE WATER'S EDGE!!.. first....it's a sin we don't respect their territory and STAY AWAY from the water's edge JULY AND AUGUST.....Common sense to me....Happy that person is unarmed but the alligator was merely WARNING him!!
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Might be time to get a caddy? Someone to send into the the waters edge before you proceed so you can safely try to save par? :D |
I have never understood why a golf ball or a penalty stroke is worth taking a chance for such an encounter
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I was ignorant to the fact a gator would be submerged in the water waiting for an old hacker to come by for a bite.... |
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Read a lot of different opinions on how to handle/deal with this issue. I think some good common horse scenes (as my grandfather would say) will go a long way addressing the need to have safe places to enjoy without threat of being eaten of disfigured. I don’t like the dramatic twists and approach some put on things in an attempt to create a ghoulish picture of gators demise after capture, while averting the demise of what the gator captures. I’m sure the gator is a lot less humane about how he dispatches his desires. I respect everyone opinion and beliefs, we all have to decide what we a willing to live with.
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I'd rather see people live and gators populations sensibly managed. We do have a choice about this, and if we choose to leave large gators in our ponds, someone will get seriously hurt.. |
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