[PugMom]

Originally Posted by Dotneko

Jerk comment. Crass.

there's always one

[Lea N]

Originally Posted by MrFlorida

It's too bad the gator had to die, they could have relocated it.. People ,tell your visitors and guests about the hazards of getting too close to the ponds.

I've wondered why gators that are large and end up in highly populated areas are not brought elsewhere, preferably the Everglades. I heard a gator trapper say once that alligators will return. I don't know how true this is and how far they will travel, or if people take the easy way out. Female gators especially will return to the same spot every year if they feel this is a safe place for their young.

[manaboutown]

Even in NYC these days? Rare Sighting In The Big Apple: Alligator Discovered in New York Park – Country Music Nation

[Chi-Town]

Originally Posted by Worldseries27

so you print the next
verse to prove what ?

I'm afraid you're going to have to ponder that on your own.

[nn0wheremann]

Originally Posted by LuvNH

I heard a reporter today say that to get away from an alligator you have to run in a zig zag pattern. Really? A zig zag pattern ..... the area of the bank shown on TV was kinda steep and at 85 I doubt she is going to run up a bank and especially not in a zig zag pattern. It was a very terrifying way for this poor lady to die, but it could have been prevented. She may well have been a winter visitor and not used to the Florida wildlife.

Didn’t some little kid get away from an alligator a couple of years ago by punching it in the nose?

[Dotneko]

Originally Posted by Byte1

" Originally Posted by Michael G. View Post
Poke salad Anne, gators got your Grandy."



I thought it was hilarious....

Birds of a feather I guess. She was someones family.

[Pilodent]

A stupid, insensitive solution. You...get rid of your crying baby. Put them up for adoption. You have never had a dog to love...obviously.

[manaboutown]

Video of the tragic event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kprXUlml1-I

[CoachKandSportsguy]

yikes, the video is damning evidence. . I am seriously thinking about NOT walking the hog eye with my grandkids. .

[LuvNH]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

Video of the tragic event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kprXUlml1-I

Oh my, this gives me the creeps. She actually stood and watched the gator swimming very fast towards them and did not move. Hmm. I have to believe she was a visitor and had never seen a gator before.

[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by LuvNH

Oh my, this gives me the creeps. She actually stood and watched the gator swimming very fast towards them and did not move. Hmm. I have to believe she was a visitor and had never seen a gator before.

She was a well loved resident of the community. The gator was a local one named Henry by residents. I wonder if people had been feeding him?

[Velvet]

Wow! Thank you for posting this. It could have happened to anyone here in TV, with all our ponds and lakes!

A few years ago my daughter and I took a boat trip in Ocala with Captain Peggy. She always carried a gun with her, as she navigated the alligator infested waters. She even made us swim in the water off the boat! I asked her if she ever needed to use her fire arm. She said once, she had to draw on some teens who threatened her clients, but never on the alligators themselves. We didn’t know how close the alligators were to us until we looked at the photos we took. Captain Peggy was a ONE time event.

[Bjeanj]

911 call after woman pulled into the water
‘It’s Too Late!’: Frantic 911 Calls Detail Elderly Florida Woman’s Fatal Gator Attack – NBC 6 South Florida

[CoachKandSportsguy]

Originally Posted by Velvet

A few years ago my daughter and I took a boat trip in Ocala with Captain Peggy. She always carried a gun with her, as she navigated the alligator infested waters. She even made us swim in the water off the boat! I asked her if she ever needed to use her fire arm. She said once, she had to draw on some teens who threatened her clients, but never on the alligators themselves. We didn’t know how close the alligators were to us until we looked at the photos we took. Captain Peggy was a ONE time event.

Holy CRAP! for real. .

[tophcfa]

Saw approximately a 12 footer on the edge of the pond next to the 7th green at Mangrove this afternoon, about the biggest I have ever seen. Ninety degrees outside, spring gator mating season is arriving so the sightings will become frequent.