[MaryRDH]

And I’m not talking about the orange and blue ones in “The Swamp” at UF in Gainesville!
People, these are large wild animals above us on the food chain! (Unless you have a rifle rack on your golf cart).
Now I’m convinced people are feeding them. I pulled over in my golf car by the little retention pond across from Rohan Rec to see a baby gator in the middle of the pond. Guess what? It made a beeline for us right to the water’s edge! Can you imagine when that gator is 6+ feet long and some newbie is showing the grandchild the ducks!!
It happened at Disney, it can happen here.

[billethkid]

Some of us remember when the buffalo roamed along Buena Vista....and parents/grandparents putting the little ones on or in the fence to get a picture.

Yesterday at the lake just past the Riley Grove starter shack there were young-ish folks with their little ones inside the split rail fence to get a selfie with a gator in the back ground. How stupid can people be???

And when someone's kids get bitten or killed by a gator, the parents and others will rise in arms about what the developer did not do to make it safe.

I say again.....how stupid can some people be??? Gators are wild, MEAT EATING animals!!!!!!!!!

[Jima64]

Originally Posted by billethkid

Some of us remember when the buffalo roamed along Buena Vista....and parents/grandparents putting the little ones on or in the fence to get a picture.

Yesterday at the lake just past the Riley Grove starter shack there were young-ish folks with their little ones inside the split rail fence to get a selfie with a gator in the back ground. How stupid can people be???

And when someone's kids get bitten or killed by a gator, the parents and others will rise in arms about what the developer did not do to make it safe.

I say again.....how stupid can some people be??? Gators are wild, MEAT EATING animals!!!!!!!!!

I know people like to say mind your own business. Others would also say something nasty to you if you were to remind them how dangerous gators can be. Me, I'm just crusty enough to remind them if it was safely possible.

[Chatbrat]

Darwin is right, & he is proven more right, every day

[Tom C]

This all reminds me when the tourist here climbed over the fence to get closer to Binky.

Binky (polar bear - Wikipedia)

Sorry - I don't know how to post a photo, so I sent (i think) the link.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Tom C

This all reminds me when the tourist here climbed over the fence to get closer to Binky.

Binky (polar bear - Wikipedia)

Sorry - I don't know how to post a photo, so I sent (i think) the link.

Tom, on another note, is your avatar picture a recent one?

[BobnBev]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Tom, on another note, is your avatar picture a recent one?

See what dieting does for you, or to you.

[Chatbrat]

Just saw online-a woman walking her dog was killed by an 8' gator on Hilton Head Island--good news the dog is OK

[Tom C]

Gracie,

I am a bit thin, but I do have more meat on my bones than my avatar may portray. When I retire I plan to work on that ... lol.

[rivaridger1]

My bet is somehow the original natives in of Florida and the other states with an alligator population went out of their way to avoid them unless hunting for them. Unless you have some mental difficulties, you stay away from Pumas, Jaguars, Bears,( both black and grizzly ) Wolves and any other animal on the North American continent which can eat you. It's actually pretty easy, don't swim with the sharks and don't walk next to any untamed large animal with big sharp teeth.

[NotGolfer]

Then I think it was at Yellowstone a week or so ago a video was posted on social media of a guy taunting a bison. Stupid is as stupid does. People have lost their common sense!

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Tom C

This all reminds me when the tourist here climbed over the fence to get closer to Binky.

Binky (polar bear - Wikipedia)

Sorry - I don't know how to post a photo, so I sent (i think) the link.

That made national news and I recall reading about it.

Your link doesn't seem to be working, so here's another.

Binky (polar bear) - Wikipedia

I especially like this part...

"When Binky stuck his head through the bars and grabbed her, she suffered a broken leg and bite wounds. Another tourist caught the event on tape.Binky kept the woman's shoe for three days before it could be retrieved by zoo officials..."

[Tom C]

Thanks ColdNoMore! You have done what I was unable to do at this end.

Yep, it was splashed all over the news. That tennis shoe remians in our Anchorage Museum, however Binky has passed away (not shoe or tourist related).

[TimeForChange]

Originally Posted by MaryRDH

And I’m not talking about the orange and blue ones in “The Swamp” at UF in Gainesville!
People, these are large wild animals above us on the food chain! (Unless you have a rifle rack on your golf cart).
Now I’m convinced people are feeding them. I pulled over in my golf car by the little retention pond across from Rohan Rec to see a baby gator in the middle of the pond. Guess what? It made a beeline for us right to the water’s edge! Can you imagine when that gator is 6+ feet long and some newbie is showing the grandchild the ducks!!
It happened at Disney, it can happen here.

Gators have been in FL for thousands of years. Get over it. Don't take your dog close, don't get close during mating season. Geese get over it!

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by TimeForChange

Gators have been in FL for thousands of years. Get over it. Don't take your dog close, don't get close during mating season. Geese ?? get over it!

People have been in Florida for some time too. I think I will just go ahead and keep being afraid of cold slimy bitey greenish alligators. I won't get close to any if I can help it. I like people better than alligators.

Almost always.