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https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/florida-deputy-goes-viral-responding-8-foot-alligator-swimming-pool

. . .

Heh, heh ... yea, there ARE some places that still
have GIANT REPTILES that WILL eat you up :-)

8-foot is SMALL. Think 12-15 foot, five times
the weight.

Now Fla/Lousiana natives are kinda USED to these
monsters. They know the rules. But OUT-OF-STATERS
often DON'T. Seems like there's a news story every
few weeks about people being eaten.

Some years ago I was riding up the road to the
Kennedy Space Center. There's a red-light and
do-not-proceed-unless point - and regular
traffic has to take a left curve. Proceeding
around the curve I immediately saw a car -
Canadian plates - and a family with three
little kids. They had got OUT of the car and
were taking pix like TEN FEET AWAY from an
absolutely gigantic gator - likely 14+ feet -
sitting along the roadside ditch. They had
NO IDEA how fast those things can move, maybe
thought they were PETS or something ... Jurassic
Park or whatever .....

I stopped and WARNED them clearly. They didn't
seem interested .....

I *guess* they all lived ... maybe the gator had
eaten some other tourists that morning .........

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On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 00:53:21 -0400, 26B.X929 wrote:

Now Fla/Lousiana natives are kinda USED to these monsters. They know
the rules. But OUT-OF-STATERS often DON'T. Seems like there's a news
story every few weeks about people being eaten.

Try canoeing in the Okefenokee. You can rent one at the Stephen Foster
State Park. The gators didn't seem interested but I really didn't like the little smiles on their faces.

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On 4/9/23 2:52 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 00:53:21 -0400, 26B.X929 wrote:

Now Fla/Lousiana natives are kinda USED to these monsters. They know
the rules. But OUT-OF-STATERS often DON'T. Seems like there's a news
story every few weeks about people being eaten.

Try canoeing in the Okefenokee. You can rent one at the Stephen Foster
State Park. The gators didn't seem interested but I really didn't like the little smiles on their faces.

They're just *waiting* for you - smiling about
how yummy you'll taste :-)

Now a boat of NYC tourists - they'd likely paddle
on over and try to pet the thing ......

There are similar problems with southern tourists
not understanding why you should never fuck with moose.

And nobody here should never to to Australia without
taking a three hour course in all the things you
must not touch ......

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On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 20:08:41 -0400, 26B.X929 wrote:

here are similar problems with southern tourists
not understanding why you should never fuck with moose.

I live in an area that includes wolves, cougars, and two flavors of bears
in the fauna; it's the damn moose that spook me.

The season has just started so nobody has been killed in Yellowstone yet.
It ain't Disneyworld folks, and the bison are not animatronic

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/01/yellowstone-bison- woman-gored-third

And for the real Asshole of the Year award:

https://fox4kc.com/news/bison-calf-in-viral-facebook-post-euthanized- after-it-was-rejected-by-herd/

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On 4/9/23 9:47 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 20:08:41 -0400, 26B.X929 wrote:

here are similar problems with southern tourists
not understanding why you should never fuck with moose.

I live in an area that includes wolves, cougars, and two flavors of bears
in the fauna; it's the damn moose that spook me.

They are VERY large and prone to attacking for no
obvious reason. My mother was on a bus tour in
somewhere near Hallifax and a moose walked into the
roadway and charged the bus head-on. Neither player
survived. Big icky mess ....

The season has just started so nobody has been killed in Yellowstone yet.
It ain't Disneyworld folks, and the bison are not animatronic

Yep, several times a year we hear of some tourist
that thinks they're pets and, well, tries to pet
the bison. SOME survive - though with smaller
internal organs.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/01/yellowstone-bison- woman-gored-third

And for the real Asshole of the Year award:

https://fox4kc.com/news/bison-calf-in-viral-facebook-post-euthanized- after-it-was-rejected-by-herd/

Hmmm ... I wonder why it was rejected ? Hadn't
gored enough stupid humans ? :-)

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On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 23:56:51 -0400, 26B.X929 wrote:

They are VERY large and prone to attacking for no
obvious reason. My mother was on a bus tour in somewhere near
Hallifax and a moose walked into the roadway and charged the bus
head-on. Neither player survived. Big icky mess ....

I was preparing breakfast during a backpacking trip in New Hampshire when
a moose walked through my campsite, narrowly missing my tent. Had I been
in the tent and he was a couple of degrees off course he would have
trampled it without noticing.

Maine didn't have a moose season for decades and it was controversial when
they finally opened one. I remember a cartoon with a guy sitting in a lawn chair with a six pack next to him and a rifle in his hand while his buddy painted a target on a moose placidly standing a few feet away. That summed
up the moose season. A large animal naturally dumber than a pile of rocks
that hasn't been hunted in living moose history isn't much of a challenge.

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On 4/10/23 1:38 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 23:56:51 -0400, 26B.X929 wrote:

They are VERY large and prone to attacking for no
obvious reason. My mother was on a bus tour in somewhere near
Hallifax and a moose walked into the roadway and charged the bus
head-on. Neither player survived. Big icky mess ....

I was preparing breakfast during a backpacking trip in New Hampshire when
a moose walked through my campsite, narrowly missing my tent. Had I been
in the tent and he was a couple of degrees off course he would have
trampled it without noticing.

Maine didn't have a moose season for decades and it was controversial when they finally opened one. I remember a cartoon with a guy sitting in a lawn chair with a six pack next to him and a rifle in his hand while his buddy painted a target on a moose placidly standing a few feet away. That summed
up the moose season. A large animal naturally dumber than a pile of rocks that hasn't been hunted in living moose history isn't much of a challenge.

And thus "un-sporting" ... kinda like those places where
they chain exotic animals to a tree so the Great Hunters
can blow 'em away after getting really boozed-up.

Cancel moose hunting ... they DO have a natural predator
anyhow, those boxy things with four wheels :-)

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On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:35:07 -0400, 26B.X929 wrote:

And thus "un-sporting" ... kinda like those places where they chain
exotic animals to a tree so the Great Hunters can blow 'em away after
getting really boozed-up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bless_the_Beasts_and_Children_(novel)

The book is better than the film. Swarthout is better known for 'The
Shootist' that was made into John Wayne's last movie.

There are a limited number of Big Horn sheep tags in this state. One fall
I hiked up a trail where the herd was known to hang out and they were up
on the rocks posing for a photo op. When I came back down a guy had shot
one. It was legal and everything but it left a bad taste in my mouth. I
mean this bunch was so tame they would sometimes hang out in the middle of
the road and I'd have to carefully thread my bike through them.

It probably didn't make a difference in the long run. The herd came down
with some sort of ovine pneumonia and was almost wiped out.

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