OT: Alligators Are Sensitive
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Is if it starts out with Florida man...
The best part "Woodward yelled almost immediately for help as a 10-foot alligator attacked him"
According to the CNN story, it was night time when he thought it was a good time for a swim.
Another article showing natural selection in action. Surprised the guy made it to nearly 50 years old.
Probably long overdue for the esteemed Darwin Award!
The idiot has a twin.
maybe they could have used the twin's photo? Listen, people, please submit THE BEST picture of your friend/loved one when something tragic happens. Unless you hate them. Then submit the picture in the article.
Maybe that was the best picture.
Smarter people have less kids so natural selection may be over
Yep, watch the movie Idiocracy with Luke Wilson. Horrible movie, but describes the likely future of the world.
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But, it's got what plants crave.
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Welcome to Costco, I love you.
I actually think that on premise alone - as well as a lot of subtle nuances - its a pretty good movie. But, to each their own...
Conceptually it was a great movie. Just played out kind of goofy in my opinion. Still entertaining though.
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The thing is, as much as we herald the stupidification of the world, we are actually gaining in IQ from generation to generation. We are smarter now than ever before.
What was REALLY cool was to tell my 5 year old son that when he was my age, cars would all drive themselves, and not sound like some Jetson's fanboy.
He was only 28,i think the article said. Maybe he died before polluting the gene pool.
There is no chance this guy has less than three kids and 2 baby mamas. No chance
I too will be surprised if this dead man can somehow last another 20 years or so... wait, what?
Area man's last words were "hey Cletus, hold my beer for a second."
May be the guy thought Alligators are not swimming. /s
Why punctuation matters.
Well, he made the news.
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People swim in water with gators all the time, even going tubing and water skiing, but there are places where people know to NOT go. This sounds like one such place. He must have landed on, or right in front of the gator. A big splash usually startles them, but big ones are more likely not to run. Plus, their mouths work like a mouse trap. If something touches it, it's over. It's sad, but you have to know better. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
That is such a croc, you tried to bait us with that story.
Very nice.
I'm fighting the impulse tooth and nail.
I lived in South Florida, near the Glades, for five years. This always freaked me out. I never got used to how casual people were around alligators. I had no idea how overrun Florida is with gators. Our daughter was in kindergarten when we moved there and they taught alligator evasion classes to the five year olds. It's crazy. But not much you can do about it -- except not swim with them!
We hunt them, but it's not enough. You have between 1 and 1.5 million alligators, but they only gave out 11,000 harvest tags last year (not including nuisance).
No
Swimming
Alligators
OR
No
Swimming,
Alligators
The comma makes a big difference I guess...
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I think similar to the "Let's eat Grandma." vs "Let's eat, Grandma." illustration, adding a comma only indicates you're talking to the alligators.
I think they should have used a period, or perhaps 4-5 exclamation points:
"No Swimming!!!!! Alligators"
I immediately thought someone put a tent stake in the Alligators' territory and thought, "MY GOD, SOMEONE NEEDS TO APOLOGIZE." You can't just run around putting tent stakes in things. It's extremely offensive.
Hold my beer.
Mama says alagatirs are sensitive cause they have all those teeth an no toothbrush.
That picture of an obviously inebriated "Tommie Bubba Bobby Lee III" is classic...
That and the fact that a woman was with him but she wasn't injured. Hmmm......what does it all mean? She was probably smart enough to let him hit the water first :)
My guess is that the dude was drunk and not being from Louisiana didn't take the signs seriously.
I'm from Michigan and wouldn't swim with alligators if there were signs that told me not to. Doesn't have to be funny, but there is NO excuse for this.
Someone posted this story in the Independence Day thread.
Since when is improving the gene pool heartbreaking?
Assuming this numbskull hasn't reproduced, he's a finalist in the 2015 Darwin Awards.
I think he might have been related to this guy: http://www.moron.com/worlds-drunkest-man/
Are you kidding me ? Not everyone is fortunate enough to be born intelligent, or receive adequate education. It's disgusting to suggest the life of some people is worth less because they are not as good as others.
It gets better (in a morose sort of way) - per the Newswek article that I saw the other day, this is also supposedly the first fatal encounter with an alligator in Texas in nearly two centuries (1836 was the last known fatality from an alligator, per the Houston Chronicle), and to think it happened in this fashion too - sad, but you cannot help but wonder what in blazes went through this person's mind. Yeah, there's a Darwin Award in this incident somewhere.
Better? Jesus man have a heart, as dumb as it is its very sad. What about his family? Im sure they would get a kick out of your fun fact, jeez...
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I'm sure of a couple things. his family knows he died because of stupidity and they're not reading mgoblog to see people's reactions. Here, have a tissue.
Hey man, hearing that woman describe it made my stomach sink, some peoples reaction to loss of life is very bizarre. Thanks for the tissue, im on the toilet and just ran out of TP.
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In the minority, but a guy lost his life and it makes me a bit sad, regardless of how dumb his actions were. Without knowing anything about him, he may have kids who now have no father, and he may have living parents who have now lost a son.
Not playing moral police, just voicing what my emotions are when I read this.
I had a bit of both. I don't have much sympathy for people who do stupid things. But reading the quote when he's asking people to shoot the alligator because it's killing him sounds awful.
but you just can't help some people. That was a pretty poor decision on his part and very likely intoxicated.