This fellow up in Jupiter got arrested for letting his son wrestle a bit with a gator.
The boy was 14 and the alligator wasn't but 4-foot long. They got him for two different things: interfering with a gator and putting his kid in danger. What nonsense.
We had an alligator in a tub out in the backyard when I was a kid. My dad brought it home from the water plant where he worked. They'd come in through the big pipes sometimes. I was feeding the gator a hotdog one day and it bit me good. I looked in its alligator eyes and realized that I and it were never going to connect. So it went to live on the farm.
Posted by floridacracker at May 31, 2004 10:12 PMwe don't have them up where i'm from. about the best i ever did, was try and make a tarantula fight a scorpion when i was little.
it didn't work. and they probably both thought i was stupid.
Posted by: chad at May 31, 2004 10:30 PMLOL.
Posted by: Donnah at May 31, 2004 10:43 PMA local dingbat who's apparently popular over there called Steve Irwin (who's one of my clients, and crazier than a shithouse rat) was hung out to dry for using his newborn son in a routine involving a saltwater crocodile.
I for one would never try to take up a relationship with a saurian, but I used to go waterski-ing where 12-18ft ones were cruising around or lying on the bank and never thought about it.
I was a really stupid kid.
Yes, but baby Bob was a tiny infant. He couldn't even hold his head up. He should have been wrapped up somewhere with his head being cradled.
This was a big teenager.
I couldn't establish a relationship with our alligator. It didn't want one. It considered my little fingers just as tasty as a hotdog.
Donnah : I couldn't establish a relationship with our alligator. It didn't want one.For some reason, I'm reminded of Muslim Fundamentalists.
I know I shouldn't be. An Alligator (if it's like our local Salt-Water Crocs) has a reptillian brain, it works quite differently and in a more limited fashion than a human one.
Muslim Fundamentalists mostly have much higher brain functions, they can think, they can reason, they have a sense of morals that tell them to do God's Work.
But every time I think of one saying 'We wanted to kill Americans, but any Kuffir will do.' then I think of your Alligator.I couldn't establish a relationship with our alligator. It didn't want one.Right.
You should blog, Alan. You write beautifully.
Posted by: Donnah at June 1, 2004 12:43 PMOkay a 14 year old boy who likes to hunt and fish should know something about gators and how to act around them. At least that is one way to look at the whole thing.
But a pet gator? Hand feeding a gator? That is a little scary.
Posted by: Rob M at June 1, 2004 06:55 PMAlthough our attempt at blending a Saurian-American into the family was a failure, it was interesting trying.
Posted by: Donnah at June 2, 2004 10:47 AM