Attack of the Lizards

[Thrawn]

I bet the kittens are happy.

[boxboy28]

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What really struck me about this story is that there's no mention of whether they kept alligators as part of the exhibit, or if the gator just happened to sneak in without being seen.
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Did you miss the part where they said the other garden employees call this Gator MOJO?

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[Curval]

Originally posted by Thrawn


It's true.  An alligator, of the geneus Pnupoissonus, is (as the name implies) a type of air breathing fish.

Thanks Thrawn...spoken like a true tight sphinctered science dude.

[Elfenwolf]

Hey, I never said it wasn't funny- I just said that Don Goodman isn't laughing.

This reminds me of the time I was about 9 yrs old and myself and several cousins and friends were having sword fights with wooden surveyors' stakes.

My Aunt told us we wouldn't be laughing and having fun if one of us got our eye poked out. My response- "Nah, Aunt Jane, the only one who wouldn't laugh is the one who gets his eye poked out. The rest of us would laugh even harder!"- got me spanked with a surveyors' stake- while everyone laughed at me.

Excuse me while I call my therapist...You know, these bbs are getting depressing.

[Animal]

Originally posted by Elfenwolf
Hey, I never said it wasn't funny- I just said that Don Goodman isn't laughing.

This reminds me of the time I was about 9 yrs old and myself and several cousins and friends were having sword fights with wooden surveyors' stakes.

My Aunt told us we wouldn't be laughing and having fun if one of us got our eye poked out. My response- "Nah, Aunt Jane, the only one who wouldn't laugh is the one who gets his eye poked out. The rest of us would laugh even harder!"- got me spanked with a surveyors' stake- while everyone laughed at me.

Excuse me while I call my therapist...You know, these bbs are getting depressing.

SPARE THE ROD!
Spoil the elf.

So this is when all your touchy feely tree hugging emotions sparked?

[Elfenwolf]

Please, let's have a moment of posting silence for Mojo, the poor Gator whose only crimes were being hungry and nearsighted.
(bowing head)


(raising head)
We need a Government commission to determine the fesability of fitting alligators with contact lenses so attacks against humans might be avoided in the future. I am calling Diane Feinstein and Barbera Boxer right now.

[john9001]

i'm not sure it's a matter of eyesight, i do think that gators need sensitivity training, they need to respect humans more an stop trying to eat us and our little dogs.

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Thrawn


It's true.  An alligator, of the geneus Pnupoissonus, is (as the name implies) a type of air breathing fish.

WHAT!???

and no one called him on this? Sheeesh!

The genus of the American Alligator is ...... Alligator
It is a reptile and is closely related to the other crocodilians:

Order Crocodylia
Family Alligatoridae
Genus Alligator
Species Mississipensis

[Thrawn]

Originally posted by midnight Target
The genus of the American Alligator is ...... Alligator
It is a reptile and is closely related to the other crocodilians:

Order Crocodylia
Family Alligatoridae
Genus Alligator
Species Mississipensis

LOL Great troll!  But who the hell is going to believe in something called " MississiPENSIS"

Mississihotteensexis might have worked better.  Crocodillian indeed.  More like Cockodilian.

[midnight Target]

You're right.... its too much to believe. What was I thinking?

[Kanth]

I didn't know Alligators preferred beef, or that humans smell like beef for that matter.

maybe Don needed a little reminder to use soap.

Originally posted by Animal
Alligators dont "mistake" their food like sharks and other predators.

If they see something moving and it smells of beef, they will attack it and dont care if its human or not.

I learned this on Discovery Channel

[Udie]

Originally posted by Thrawn
I bet the kittens are happy.

 nah they're all dead,  God killed them while Swoop was surfing sheep fetish sites.

[gofaster]

He was weeding a lily pond on Monday, standing in about 4 feet of water, when he apparently stepped on the 392-pound male alligator, Capt. Roy Brown of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.

"He did recall that the alligator obviously grabbed his arm, there was a twisting type action," the doctor said.

The alligator was a wild alligator that lived at a nearby pond and occasionally wandered into the lily pond at the botanical garden, where workers called it Mo-Jo.

Goodman told wildlife officials he did not see the alligator until it attacked.

They said the alligator might have mistaken Goodman's splashing the pond for that of a duck or wading bird, their natural prey. Because it was used to being around people, it had probably lost its natural fear of humans, Brown said.

[H. Godwineson]

The man stepped on an 11 foot alligator on the bottom of a pond in four feet of water.  The gator ripped his arm off.  And someone suggests that the gator mistook the man for a duck?

Hahahahahahahahahahaha!  Oh My!  Stop it guys!  You're killin me!

City folk!

Snickeringly, Shuckins

[hblair]

I read where there was a gator attack in Knoxville, TN this past weekend. Apparently taking a plug out of a Mr. Fulmer's rear end. Can anyone confirm this?