Great, another ignorant yahoo does something stupid like swimming drunk late at night where he admits he knows gators are will launch another killing spree by vengeful idiots. There's little hope for humans and nature coexisting ever.
Whatever. Put your hand on a hot stove, you get burned. Okeechobee ain't exactly the cerebral cortex of Florida, mind you.
I have never understood people who swim where they know gators are. And some people think its no big deal.
That was my thought too, me and my brother in law were talking about it over the weekend that the biggest redeeming quality of stupid people is that they dig their own holes due to stupidity.
man, i live in NJ and I know not to go swimming in any Floridian body of water that isnt saturated with light and chlorine, once the sun goes down. i cannot begin to imagine how bad it must suck...if you really stop to think about it..getting your arm torn off by a gator.
What a dumb arse, even his friends tried to stop him from doing it. Lucky he got away with his life to be honest with ya.
For real. Whenever I go to FL and a hotel has an outdoor pool thats not fenced in, I feel like strapping on one of those buck knives just incase a gator crawled in there. FL is no joke. I think I would take drive-bys over gators ripping off limbs, sharks taking a chunk out of you, and poisonous snakes.
And the least redeeming quality is that one of the holes they dig is having children early and often.
All it takes is half a brain and you can avoid most of those dangerous animals. It's the Condo Commandos that'll tear you limb from limb.
Oh, and he says this shows something needs to be done about the overpopulation of gators.....how about the wonderful concept of natural selection
Maybe it's just me, but I think it shows more about the overpopulation of inebriated half- wits. My brother-in-law and I used to go fishing in Okeechobee, but I never wanted to swim in it. Just as another poster already made mention of; any fresh water is potentially an alligator home. Quite a few years ago I worked for an irrigation company and any time I was installing a pump I ALWAYS paid attention when I had my back to a canal.
OMG have any of you ever been down to the shores of Lake Okeechobee? I was there once. I was in town to help out a former co-worker of mine who was working at the local Wal-Mart to assist in the store remodeling. He was working nights, so I had a few hours to kill. Before I hit the local crapfest of a thing they call a movie theater I decided to take a drive down to the shores of the lake to see what's doing. I was there for about 15 minutes watching people fish, and I have never seen so many HUGE gators in a lake before. I'm an Orlando native. I've seen my fair share of gator infested lakes, including one here locally named Lake Jessup, which supposedly contains the most gators per square acre than any other FL lake. I have never seen gators this size in Jessup or anywhere else. The gators in Okeechobee were ****ING MONSTROUS! I'm not at all scared of gators, and I wouldn't be scared to enter the water in Okeechobee, but you could not pay me enough to go for a nighttime swim in that lake!
lol @ condo commandos. Obviously this guy was a moron and asked for it. But, Ive seen gators just swim into people's pools and some big *** snakes all over FL. My brother actually had a gator in his pool a few years back. Can you imagine not seeing that thing before you jumped in?
My parents lived off a rim canal in Treasure Island for a few years, and my dad used to tap a stick on the dock in the evening to call two gators over. He fed them leftovers from dinner. My uncle and I used to give him hell about it, because that makes them associate food with people (not good) and we were convinced it would be a matter of time before he had a hook on one arm. He used to feed a little 5 footer friggin spagetti with a fork! Anyway, they (my parents) ended up getting a dog and mom put a leash on dad's gator feeding hobby.
It shouldnt take half a brain, hell it shouldnt take a quarter of a brain. Lake + Florida = Big ****in' Gators 1) Yeah he's seen gators but he wouldnt think they'd do anything. I'm going to stick my dick in a tank filled with piranhas because they are harmless you know. 2) He was buzzed? What a stupid douche, the gator should have went for the head.
I used to go fishing near the Glades' all the time just because..everybody told me the biggest bass on the planet were there.... Out of every 4 I would hook...3 would get taken by the gators that would come out of nowhere. I don't fish there anymore because it is a futile exercise....and this douchebag goes swimming? Somebody sterilize this guy quick.
