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May 26, 2011
Gator time
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I'll tell you what. I love a good alligator story. Now, to catch you up briefly on my life, I have a fiancee now. It's true - some poor girl actually thinks it's a good idea to marry me. She used to live in Florida, but now she is ensconced with me in Chicago, where she absolutely loves it when it is 45 degrees on Memorial Day. But I digress.
Since I was often going to Florida to visit her, I'd have my share of alligator sightings. But this, friends, is one ridiculous alligator encounter, courtesy of a ten year old Florida boy:
Michael Dasher said he was fishing with his friends from the side of the canal, near Green Road and Fiske Boulevard, when something caught the hook....
The boys said Michael hooked a 6-foot alligator.
Michael said the alligator ran at him, so he started hitting it with sticks. He said at one point he jumped on the back of the beast.
Michael was somehow able to capture the animal, which wildlife officials measured at 5 feet 9 inches long, and drag it home without getting seriously injured. He did have a few minor scratches on his hands and arms.
Jesus! Can you imagine hooking an alligator, and instead of running away like the sissy you are, beating it and dragging it home? When you're TEN YEARS OLD? I'm 31, and I'd still crap my pants if an alligator got within 10 feet of me.
So, this kid is braver than me. Not news, of course. However, apparently in Florida it is illegal to mess with gators:
His grandfather, Benjie Cox, said when he saw the alligator in the front yard he called the Brevard County Sheriff's Office and wildlife officials.Cox said after he gave Michael a stern talk about what he had done, the officers gave him one, too. He said they told him that if he was older, he would have been arrested and charged with a felony.
Cox said the alligator seemed like it was in bad shape, but wildlife officers said they were planning to release it back into the St. John's River.
Stupid narcs, ruining all the fun.
entry no. 1538
Posted at May 26, 2011 11:20 AM