Looks like alligator guy has some competition: https://bangordailynews.com/2015/07...dead-in-bizarre-fireworks-accident-in-calais/
Seriously?
The Nit-Picker in me wants very much for this not to be called an "accident." Very, very much. Good Gawd, people!Looks like alligator guy has some competition: https://bangordailynews.com/2015/07...dead-in-bizarre-fireworks-accident-in-calais/
Seriously?
People get themselves and/or their kids killed all the time being stupid around animals. It comes from the arrogance of believing that we've surpassed nature and control everything.
How many beers does it take for something like that to seem like a good idea?
Exactly! What if you run into an insomniac alligator? Or a sleep-eating one?From the link: "If the sun is down, stay out of the water."
I think if the water belongs to gators then I'll stay out of it during the day too.
.Given the short interval that was reported for the time between when he hit the water and when he called for help, he must have landed pretty close to the gator. From the gator's perspective it must have been like the time my cat was snoozing on the porch and a dove hit the window right above her head before falling, stunned, in front of her
Which leads to questions as to how it got to be a larger-than-average alligator. Although I still hope that the gator isn't killed for taking advantage of what was provided for him.
It likely moved in from another hunting ground. If an animal that large had been in the area long, there would have been signs beyond a few sightings.
Looks like alligator guy has some competition: https://bangordailynews.com/2015/07...dead-in-bizarre-fireworks-accident-in-calais/
Seriously?
I'm thinking alcohol had something to do with it, as well... though one almost wonders if it was a suicide, the way he taunted the gators and handed off his wallet before the dive.
The downside is that I expect they'll kill the alligator for the attack.
Tommie Woodward, 28, was at an outdoor bar at a marina in Orange, Texas, around 2:30 a.m. local time when he defied a sign warning of alligators and entered the bayou waters.
Employees at the marina had erected the sign in recent days after spotting a “pretty damn big” 11-foot alligator in the area, Orange County Police Captain Robert Enmon told BuzzFeed News.
A woman with Woodward warned him not to enter the water because of the risk, prompting him to reply “Fuck that alligator,” Enmon said.
Just before he jumped in, the woman spotted the gator, Enmon said. Woodward was attacked almost immediately.
How many beers does it take for something like that to seem like a good idea?
Apparently one too many beers.Friends described Woodword on a memorial Facebook page as an “avid beer connoisseur, [who] loved fishing, swimming, camping, grilling and being outdoors period!”
Looks like alligator guy has some competition: https://bangordailynews.com/2015/07...dead-in-bizarre-fireworks-accident-in-calais/
Seriously?
Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods includes an anecdote about a mother smearing honey on her toddler's hand so the cute bear could lick it off. Instead, of course, it bit the poor baby's hand off.
I read some later info on the mortar-on-the-head incident that indicated, according to the friends present, that the guy had threatened to light the device on his head, they thought they had talked him out of it, and then he, possibly as a gag pretending to light it, accidentally actually lit it with his lighter. I have no proof, and perhaps his friends don't either. He was obviouisly very drunk, and all swear he would never have deliberately lit the fuse.
...Many of the recent deaths and dismemberment by sharks follow similar lapses of good judgment. Harsh as it seems, the winnowing of the shallow end of the gene pool has happened since Urg succumbed to the urge to show off for cave art by running beneath a wooly mammoth to tickle its underside.
So many candidates vie to make the list in so many ways.
Nah, there's something that has changed about our local beaches is all (well increased shark population + very warm waters this year is the most likely theory, imho). There was no reason to expect there'd be so many real shark attacks here this year. If there were, it would have been nice for scientists to let us know beforehand! If you look at the stats it's clear this is abnormal. Usually if you go only waist-deep in mid-day or so, it's just the little ones that might bite you here. Not anymore, obviously!