Huge 13ft alligator on Florida golf course

Von Tonner · 03-12-15, 07:38 AM

Help me out here guys. You have this wild carnivore reptile lurking around on your fairways and greens and it's "Anyone up for a relaxing game of golf?".

"Despite alligator being spotted at the course almost daily, none have attacked a person in the club's 37 years, Zada said, owing in part to a strict policy against feeding the animals.

Dangerous confrontations between humans and alligators usually stem from people feeding them, Florida wildlife officials have said."

How comforting to know. We don't go out and feed crocodiles here in SA either, but god help you if you try and share the same river with one!!!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10102168.html

Jimbuna · 03-12-15, 07:56 AM

Strange but I don't see anyone on the green or the fairway

STEED · 03-12-15, 08:00 AM

A walking handbag that is so cool.

nikimcbee · 03-12-15, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by STEED

A walking handbag that is so cool.

Hey Steed, come over and give Auntie Al a big kiss. Closer...

Wolferz · 03-12-15, 10:59 AM

You want to play through?

Sure! We'll just wait over there. Waaaay over there!

Aktungbby · 03-12-15, 05:06 PM

CRIKEY!that'll stiffen my putter!

I'll take a mulligan BBY!

Fubar2Niner · 03-12-15, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Strange but I don't see anyone on the green or the fairway

Jim, that's because they are all trying to find their balls

Aktungbby · 03-12-15, 07:09 PM

What the' gator is really a lookn' fer...his late relative?!!!

Stealhead · 03-12-15, 10:53 PM

You should see the alligators that live in more rural areas. I was boating on a creek off the St.Johns once. Round this bend there must have been 8 or 9 adult gators in plain sight.

That meant there where several more out of sight. Gators very often eat each other so the real big dudes are often cannibals. My buudy and I decided to split on the way out we saw a kyaker.

We advised him that it was best to go no further he kept on so we waited round the bend shortly he returned at full speed he was like a propeller with the oars it was pretty funny. We told you so.

Where they can really get you is when they rest on the bottom you step on one and he'll have you. Some years back some men where gigging in shallow water for arrow heads. One man stepped on a gator resting on the bottom(you can't see them most time like this) it of course roused and grabbed his leg and began the twist to drown the man. Lucky for him his friends where near and hit the gator with their gigging rods and it fled. If the man had been alone I'm sure he'd have been killed and the cause unknown as he'd have been eaten.

Some are "urbanized" and less hostile though in my mind still very dangerous and some people see them as a curiosity not the predator they really are.

One last gator story. I've personaly witnessed an adult in a road get hit at 70mph and it lived with no serious damage. This one was my friends fault we where driving at night in his car. I saw the gator in the road assumed my buddy did as well but he kept going. So I yelled "stop there is a flipping(word altered) gator". Too late we nailed it felt just like a speed bump which in effect it was. Ripped off the bumper cover we looked back and the gator just kept going on its merry way truly one of natures toughest survivors been going strong since humans where yet to walk fully erect.

Aktungbby · 03-13-15, 02:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Stealhead

Gators very often eat each other so the real big dudes are often cannibals. One last gator story...

You clearly have some subliminal repercussive reincarnation issues form our last lifetime together on the great Serengeti migration at the Mara River crossing. Döenitz didn't invent the underwater 'wolfpack'!

ME:

YOU:

I recall this story from some years back: http://articles.latimes.com/1995-08-29/news/mn-40038_1_gator-hunters " For the past 20 years, radio-collared hunting dogs have been disappearing in the Blackwater River State Forest. Their owners, members of the Blackwater River and Santa Rosa fox hunting associations, thought people were stealing them.
But a 10', 500 Lb gator had turned a game trail into his private diner, grabbing dogs as they ran across Coldwater Creek in pursuit of game. Then, when trappers slit open its belly, they found the tags and collars of six more hunting hounds. Their barking was a dinner bell."

Von Tonner · 03-13-15, 03:52 AM

Anyone seen our green keeper lately?

Jimbuna · 03-13-15, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Fubar2Niner

Jim, that's because they are all trying to find their balls

LOL

03-12-15, 07:38 AM	#1
Von Tonner Seasoned Skipper Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Africa Posts: 711 Downloads: 44 Uploads: 0	Huge 13ft alligator on Florida golf course Help me out here guys. You have this wild carnivore reptile lurking around on your fairways and greens and it's "Anyone up for a relaxing game of golf?". "Despite alligator being spotted at the course almost daily, none have attacked a person in the club's 37 years, Zada said, owing in part to a strict policy against feeding the animals. Dangerous confrontations between humans and alligators usually stem from people feeding them, Florida wildlife officials have said." How comforting to know. We don't go out and feed crocodiles here in SA either, but god help you if you try and share the same river with one!!! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10102168.html __________________ "Knowledge is like a lion:it cannot be gently embraced" - South African proverb

03-12-15, 07:56 AM	#2
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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,006 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	FORE! *CRIKEY!that'll stiffen* my putter!** I'll take a mulligan BBY! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,006 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	What the' gator is really a lookn' fer...his late relative?!!! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

03-12-15, 10:53 PM	#9
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	You should see the alligators that live in more rural areas. I was boating on a creek off the St.Johns once. Round this bend there must have been 8 or 9 adult gators in plain sight. That meant there where several more out of sight. Gators very often eat each other so the real big dudes are often cannibals. My buudy and I decided to split on the way out we saw a kyaker. We advised him that it was best to go no further he kept on so we waited round the bend shortly he returned at full speed he was like a propeller with the oars it was pretty funny. We told you so. Where they can really get you is when they rest on the bottom you step on one and he'll have you. Some years back some men where gigging in shallow water for arrow heads. One man stepped on a gator resting on the bottom(you can't see them most time like this) it of course roused and grabbed his leg and began the twist to drown the man. Lucky for him his friends where near and hit the gator with their gigging rods and it fled. If the man had been alone I'm sure he'd have been killed and the cause unknown as he'd have been eaten. Some are "urbanized" and less hostile though in my mind still very dangerous and some people see them as a curiosity not the predator they really are. One last gator story. I've personaly witnessed an adult in a road get hit at 70mph and it lived with no serious damage. This one was my friends fault we where driving at night in his car. I saw the gator in the road assumed my buddy did as well but he kept going. So I yelled "stop there is a flipping(word altered) gator". Too late we nailed it felt just like a speed bump which in effect it was. Ripped off the bumper cover we looked back and the gator just kept going on its merry way truly one of natures toughest survivors been going strong since humans where yet to walk fully erect. Last edited by Stealhead; 03-12-15 at 11:15 PM.

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Von Tonner Seasoned Skipper Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Africa Posts: 711 Downloads: 44 Uploads: 0	Anyone seen our green keeper lately? __________________ "Knowledge is like a lion:it cannot be gently embraced" - South African proverb