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Florida Gator: Swimming Pool Edition!

by Adam L Silverman|  May 31, 201711:42 pm| 70 Comments

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Because no two days on patrol are ever the same… #OnlyInFlorida #MemorialDayInTheSunshineState #DeathRoll #LookBeforeYouLeap ?☀️ pic.twitter.com/mKUx5PP63e

— SarasotaSheriff (@SarasotaSheriff) May 29, 2017

On Memorial Day the Sarasota Sheriff’s Office had to have a Fish and Wildlife Officer drag a large gator out of a swimming pool in Venice, FL.

Sarasota County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a Venice, Florida, home Monday to help relocate the uninvited guest, which was measured at 7 to 8 feet long.

Gators in Florida swimming pools are not uncommon. But this one was captured on video thrashing and rolling about as a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission trapper attempted to drag the critter out of the water.

This type of thing happens quite often in Florida and usually looks something like this:

 

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  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 31, 2017 at 11:46 pm

    Never smile at a crocodile,
    No, you can’t get friendly with a crocodile.
    Don’t be taken in by his welcome grin,
    He’s imagining how well you’d fit within his skin….

  2. 2.

    DocSardonic

    May 31, 2017 at 11:48 pm

    Well, this is Florida and where two or more tablespoons of water are gathered together, there will potentially be a gator.

  3. 3.

    MomSense

    May 31, 2017 at 11:56 pm

    So maybe endless winters and having to bundle up in hats and mittens at the end of May isn’t such a bad thing.

  4. 4.

    efgoldman

    May 31, 2017 at 11:56 pm

    Meh, s/he wouldn’t eat that much….
    Don’t they have gators in other Gulf states? How come we only get these reports from Florida?

  5. 5.

    Mnemosyne

    May 31, 2017 at 11:57 pm

    Meh. It’s not uncommon in these parts for people to look out into their backyards and see a few black bears taking a dip in their pool.

  6. 6.

    MobiusKlein

    May 31, 2017 at 11:58 pm

    That song stabbed me in the brain!
    I had to listen to that for hours whilst debugging the Disney Screen Savers I worked on.
    That, and the little mermaid song.
    DIE

  7. 7.

    Omnes Omnibus

    May 31, 2017 at 11:58 pm

    You don’t have a gig with the FL Tourist Board, right?

    Unrelated question: Do you know where Susan Rice landed? I know Sam Powers is back at Harvard, but I haven’t been able to find out where Rice is.

  8. 8.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    May 31, 2017 at 11:59 pm

    That gator in the swimming pool made the news here in LA last night. Guess they needed filler since there were no car chases.

  9. 9.

    seaboogie

    June 1, 2017 at 12:02 am

    I don’t miss FLA, and consider it a success that I taught my Canadian born water-loving Golden the difference between safe “good” water, and the “bad water” canals of Miami. Then we moved to NorCal, and I had to teach him about rattlesnakes. Truth be told, what nearly killed him was a tick. But he lived his full measure, and for that I am grateful.

  10. 10.

    Barbara

    June 1, 2017 at 12:02 am

    @Mnemosyne: I like how the mama bear hugs one of her cubs at the end of the clip.

  11. 11.

    JCJ

    June 1, 2017 at 12:02 am

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    That was one of my daughter’s favorite songs when she would watch those Disney movies over and over.

  12. 12.

    Another Scott

    June 1, 2017 at 12:05 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: She’s at American.edu

    HTH.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  13. 13.

    Barbara

    June 1, 2017 at 12:05 am

    I think that spinning move is how alligators drown what they catch before eating it. It’s pretty amazing.

  14. 14.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 1, 2017 at 12:07 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: I do not.

    She is on several corporate boards, as well as being a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.

  15. 15.

    Mnemosyne

    June 1, 2017 at 12:07 am

    @MobiusKlein:

    Had to look it up — the music for that was written by Frank Churchill, who also wrote such noted earworms as “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf,” “Heigh-Ho,” and “Pink Elephants on Parade.”

  16. 16.

    Major Major Major Major

    June 1, 2017 at 12:07 am

    @Mnemosyne: up here we mostly get mountain lions. But some people get jumpy around all the self driving cars.

  17. 17.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 1, 2017 at 12:07 am

    @Another Scott: Cool. Thanks.

  18. 18.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 1, 2017 at 12:07 am

    @Mnemosyne: We have black bears here too. They, like Florida panthers, are finally making a comeback (the cats, not the hockey team).

  19. 19.

    Mnemosyne

    June 1, 2017 at 12:09 am

    @Major Major Major Major:

    We have a famous mountain lion less than 5 miles away from me: P-22. They’ve started building an entire wildlife festival around him.

    We also have lots of what you need to keep bears and mountain lions around: deer.

  20. 20.

    Mnemosyne

    June 1, 2017 at 12:14 am

    By the way, Adam, I think the folks at Duffelblog heard how your last work meeting turned out:

    THE PENTAGON — An entire Joint Planning Group (JPG) died from asphyxiation after a planner and a future operations officer sucked all the oxygen out of the room during a half-hour argument over the meaning of the phrase “direct support,” sources confirmed today.

    “Our first responders were on the scene within ten minutes,” said Fort Myer Fire Department Spokesman Scott Fuller. “But first they had to conduct mission analysis, Course of Action development, and preparation of a Rescue Commander’s Estimate in PowerPoint.”

    Sources reported that this took more than two precious hours, and by then, many of the 45 service members in the room were deceased.

    “We did find several people still breathing,” said Fuller. “But when we questioned them about the difference between constraints and limitations, their answers were incoherent. What’s more, none of them displayed any disruptive thinking capability.”

  21. 21.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    June 1, 2017 at 12:14 am

    @Mnemosyne: Seen a few deer down here in the lowlands.

  22. 22.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 1, 2017 at 12:15 am

    Current swamp status: pic.twitter.com/57G9FLVyfn

    — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 15, 2017

  23. 23.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 1, 2017 at 12:17 am

    @Mnemosyne: I’ve never been to FT Myer. As opposed to Fort Myers, FL. I’ve been to the latter.

    There is a real reason this spoof post is funny, but if I explain it to you it won’t be. Though Omnes and Villagio and several others will get it.

  24. 24.

    Chet Murthy

    June 1, 2017 at 12:18 am

    Regarding that “8k/pint” transfusion startup starring Peter “Nosferatu” Thiel, LGM had a thread about it a while back and I think the upshot is that, while it’s ….. high on the list of reasons for reinstating tumbrels, the science is (ahem) sketchy.

  25. 25.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 1, 2017 at 12:18 am

    @Mnemosyne: “Direct support” is an easy term to define. If you are a gunner. They call, you shoot.

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne

    June 1, 2017 at 12:19 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    One time I was going south on the 2 and took the ramp to go east on the 134 and there was a very dead deer laying on the shoulder. It was pretty startling because it’s a sharp curve and, like the driver who hit it, I didn’t see it until it was right in front of me.

  27. 27.

    Mnemosyne

    June 1, 2017 at 12:19 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    So you claim.

    ETA: I think Omnes hinted at the real reason it’s funny. But it’s funny to us civvies, too.

  28. 28.

    efgoldman

    June 1, 2017 at 12:21 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    if I explain it to you it won’t be. Though Omnes and Villagio and several others will get it.

    Anybody that’s had to sit thru someone else’s power point presentation in excruciating detail gets it.

  29. 29.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 1, 2017 at 12:22 am

    @Mnemosyne: That was the obvious reason it is funny. Unless I take you through the joint planning and joint crisis action planning process, and you actually know a bunch of those folks and how they talk, act, work, than you won’t get the deeper level of funny.

  30. 30.

    Mnemosyne

    June 1, 2017 at 12:24 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Okay, Professor Frink.

  31. 31.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 1, 2017 at 12:25 am

    @Mnemosyne: No, my thing was arty specific.

  32. 32.

    Mike in NC

    June 1, 2017 at 12:27 am

    Read today that North Carolina is considering making the hunting of alligators legal again, which was last done in 1973.

  33. 33.

    ??‍? Martin

    June 1, 2017 at 12:34 am

    @efgoldman: Anyone in academia will get it as well.

  34. 34.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 1, 2017 at 12:37 am

    @efgoldman: @??‍? Martin: Unlikely. These types of sessions are usually very, very powerpoint light. The reliance is on white boards until consensus is reached (beaten out of everyone). At that point a slide deck will be created as a due out/deliverable.

  35. 35.

    Morzer

    June 1, 2017 at 12:44 am

    http://thehill.com/policy/technology/335780-linkedin-ceo-trump-worse-than-feared

    LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman railed against President Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying Trump is a worse president than he had anticipated.

    “By trying to kind of elevate his own TV ratings through America-first ideology, he’s breaking our alliances and global leadership,” Hoffman said during a CNBC segment.

    “It’s everything from not signing the [Trans-Pacific Partnership] to what you saw in the most recent European trip — which is — it’s unprecedented in the post-World War II era to have the leader of Germany say, ‘We can’t rely on America anymore.’”

    Hoffman announced earlier in the week a $30 million investment in Change.org, an online petition site aimed at facilitating digital advocacy and activism.

  36. 36.

    ??‍? Martin

    June 1, 2017 at 12:49 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Sounds a lot like administrative meetings, where everyone pontificates on obscure pointless details and then objects to any presented proposal due to a single anecdote not shared by anyone else in the room. 2 hours later if you’re lucky you’ve hashed out a grudgingly accepted legally phrased but utterly non binding pilot that 5 minutes later nobody will any longer give a shit about because arguing is fun but followup isn’t.

  37. 37.

    efgoldman

    June 1, 2017 at 12:49 am

    @Morzer:

    LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman railed against President Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying Trump is a worse president than he had anticipated.

    Lie down with rats, get up with the plague.

  38. 38.

    Mnemosyne

    June 1, 2017 at 12:51 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Because no one in any other field has ever been forced to come up with a group PowerPoint deck?

    One of my coworkers and I almost killed each other just trying to come up with a joint deck. We agreed to never speak of it again.

  39. 39.

    Morzer

    June 1, 2017 at 12:51 am

    Ben Sasse‏Verified account @BenSasse 4h4 hours ago

    Rare performance of Covfefe’s Etude in D major tonight. So beautiful. Only I and small group of ppl know exactly what I mean.
    #PianoRecital

  40. 40.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 1, 2017 at 12:56 am

    @??‍? Martin: I was once in a JPT during an exercise. I was there as the Corp’s Cultural Advisor/Director of Cultural Operations. Several of the observer controllers couldn’t help themselves and decided they’d participate instead of observe. This was partially because the two planners were having some trouble with both what their boss (the Chief of Plans) had assigned them to do and with what those of us around the table were giving them as inputs. This included several of us trying to gently nudge them in the right direction. I left somewhere between hour eight and ten. And I will take responsibility for creating at least one rabbit hole, especially as things dragged on.

  41. 41.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 1, 2017 at 12:57 am

    @Mnemosyne: You and your colleague don’t have access to JDAMs and TLAMs.

  42. 42.

    Morzer

    June 1, 2017 at 12:59 am

    Evan McMullin‏Verified account @Evan_McMullin 15m15 minutes ago

    Replying to @Evan_McMullin
    Trump surrogates are in full freakout mode already over Comey’s testimony, a good indication of how damning it may be.

    Jonathan Alter‏Verified account @jonathanalter 3h3 hours ago

    Putin must have amazing leverage for Trump to feel obliged to give back the staging areas for their assault on the United States.

  43. 43.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 1, 2017 at 1:01 am

    @Morzer: The Maryland property is a SIGINT collection facility directed at NSA (Ft. Mead) and the Pentagon. The Long Island property is a SIGINT collection site directed towards the various missions at the UN.

  44. 44.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 1, 2017 at 1:07 am

    @Morzer: Also, Russia issued a threat over this 8 days ago:

    Russia is seeking to return its diplomatic property in #US?? asap.
    Otherwise, we will have to take counter measures https://t.co/2MJ4PauEYt pic.twitter.com/kjC1iSQRrc

    — Russia in USA ?? (@RusEmbUSA) May 23, 2017

  45. 45.

    NotMax

    June 1, 2017 at 1:08 am

    Inadvertently funny – the vid which FYWP chose to offer up for this post on the front page. Not a doctored screenshot.

  46. 46.

    Morzer

    June 1, 2017 at 1:11 am

    http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/musk-threatens-to-quit-advising-if-trump-ditches-paris-deal.html

    As President Trump flirts with pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord, prominent business leaders allied with the White House are speaking out in disapproval. But speaking out doesn’t appear to be enough for Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who threatened to depart the White House business council on which he sits if the U.S. pulls out of the agreement.

    If Musk thinks that Trump will care about losing him, he’s deluded as to his own importance.

  47. 47.

    hovercraft

    June 1, 2017 at 1:11 am

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    My last name means crocodile. I’m told that since the crocodile is my totem, I could jump into a croc infested body of water and come to no harm. I’ve never tested this hypothesis or heard of anyone in my family testing it either.

  48. 48.

    Calming Influence

    June 1, 2017 at 1:12 am

    Man walks into a deli: “Gimme an alligator sandwich, and make it snappy!”

    And as a side note, why is it we are constantly hearing of talented people dying too young, but we never hear “Today, Donald Rumsfelt (Dick Cheney/ Ted Nugent ) was eaten by an alligator…film at 11.”

    Cruel world.

  49. 49.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    June 1, 2017 at 1:14 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    You and your colleague don’t have access to JDAMs and TLAMs.

    You don’t know that, she works for the GEC.

  50. 50.

    efgoldman

    June 1, 2017 at 1:16 am

    @Calming Influence:

    “Gimme an alligator sandwich, and make it snappy!”

    Go to your room!

  51. 51.

    efgoldman

    June 1, 2017 at 1:17 am

    @hovercraft:

    I could jump into a croc infested body of water and come to no harm.

    You only have to try it once to disprove it.

  52. 52.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    June 1, 2017 at 1:18 am

    @Adam L Silverman: @Morzer: Also, Russia issued a threat over this 8 days ago:

    and here I thought we were going to get very tough and not be laughed at anymore

    @Morzer: I saw that earlier and wondered if Elon Musk isn’t vastly more influential than I was aware.

  53. 53.

    Calming Influence

    June 1, 2017 at 1:20 am

    @hovercraft: I would really love to know the geneolgy of someone who’s last name means “crocodile”. I get “Baker”, “Sawyer”, “Smith”, etc., but “Crocodile” has got to have a really unique story behind it.

  54. 54.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    June 1, 2017 at 1:21 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: I thought you guys mostly did indirect support. If the gunners can actually see the enemy, they’re too close.

  55. 55.

    NotMax

    June 1, 2017 at 1:21 am

    @efgoldman

    Crocodile Dumbdee.

  56. 56.

    hovercraft

    June 1, 2017 at 1:23 am

    @Adam L Silverman:
    Doesn’t the IC have recordings of the 12/29 call with Flynn asking Putin not to retaliate because the sanctions would be lifted via EO after the inauguration?

  57. 57.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 1, 2017 at 1:24 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: He’s not. This is, at least, the second time he’s threatened to quit. That council/committee is for show anyway.

  58. 58.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 1, 2017 at 1:25 am

    @hovercraft: That is my understanding based on the reporting. Also, the Russians have their own copy from their side of the call.

  59. 59.

    NotMax

    June 1, 2017 at 1:26 am

    @Adam L. Silverman

    Ah, a Potemkin committee.

  60. 60.

    Adam L Silverman

    June 1, 2017 at 1:30 am

    @NotMax: Da tovarisch!

  61. 61.

    Morzer

    June 1, 2017 at 1:33 am

    @NotMax:

    A GOPotemkin committee, even.

  62. 62.

    hovercraft

    June 1, 2017 at 1:37 am

    @efgoldman:
    I’m good, I’ll take their word for it.
    @Calming Influence:
    My parents are from Zimbabwe and we speak Ndebele, a Zulu dialect. Where many English names are derived from occupations, ours are based on totems, so surnames are usually animals. Here my name is pretty “exotic”, nut in Southern Africa, It’s like Jane Smith.
    Examples:
    Ndlovu – elephant
    Nyoni – bird
    Nkomo – cow
    Silwane – lion
    and so on.
    No I didn’t include my last name ;)

  63. 63.

    efgoldman

    June 1, 2017 at 1:37 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    This is, at least, the second time he’s threatened to quit

    Musk is really, really, really rich. He has way more money than Tangerine Tumor. I imagine Henna Hairball would just as soon that Musk is gone.

  64. 64.

    hovercraft

    June 1, 2017 at 1:40 am

    @NotMax:
    Take that back! I’m not some Aussie bushwhacker.

  65. 65.

    ??‍? Martin

    June 1, 2017 at 1:43 am

    @Morzer: I don’t think he’s deluded. I think he just recognizes that there’s no more point to him being there once the biggest domino has fallen.

  66. 66.

    NotMax

    June 1, 2017 at 1:44 am

    @hovercraft

    It was a riff off efgoldman’s comment and not an attempt to cast any aspersion upon you or roil the waters.

  67. 67.

    Morzer

    June 1, 2017 at 1:45 am

    @??‍? Martin:

    He was deluded to go there in the first place, deluded to stay and deluded if he thinks Trump will care if he leaves this time.

  68. 68.

    hovercraft

    June 1, 2017 at 1:49 am

    @NotMax:
    relax, I’m messing with you ; )

  69. 69.

    satby

    June 1, 2017 at 6:12 am

    @Adam L Silverman: I was never in the service, but I was in corporate IT,and I thought it was hysterical.
    After I recovered from the meeting flashbacks it induced.

  70. 70.

    J R in WV

    June 1, 2017 at 11:35 am

    @efgoldman:

    And the people who don’t put much effort into a really long PPT show, and then just read the slides to you, like you are too dumb to be able to read yourself..!!??

    What’s with that? I have nothing I can add to the typed slides… Well then, why don’t you go back to the rest room while we tear through the slides in 7 minutes flat???

    The sucking air, that’s pretty funny too. The survivors weren’t coherent… died laffing.

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