Because no two days on patrol are ever the same… #OnlyInFlorida #MemorialDayInTheSunshineState #DeathRoll #LookBeforeYouLeap ?☀️ pic.twitter.com/mKUx5PP63e
— SarasotaSheriff (@SarasotaSheriff) May 29, 2017
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:
SiubhanDuinne
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….
DocSardonic
Well, this is Florida and where two or more tablespoons of water are gathered together, there will potentially be a gator.
MomSense
So maybe endless winters and having to bundle up in hats and mittens at the end of May isn’t such a bad thing.
efgoldman
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?
Mnemosyne
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.
MobiusKlein
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
Omnes Omnibus
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.
?BillinGlendaleCA
That gator in the swimming pool made the news here in LA last night. Guess they needed filler since there were no car chases.
seaboogie
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.
Barbara
@Mnemosyne: I like how the mama bear hugs one of her cubs at the end of the clip.
JCJ
@SiubhanDuinne:
That was one of my daughter’s favorite songs when she would watch those Disney movies over and over.
Another Scott
@Omnes Omnibus: She’s at American.edu
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
Barbara
I think that spinning move is how alligators drown what they catch before eating it. It’s pretty amazing.
Adam L Silverman
@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.
Mnemosyne
@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.”
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: up here we mostly get mountain lions. But some people get jumpy around all the self driving cars.
Omnes Omnibus
@Another Scott: Cool. Thanks.
Adam L Silverman
@Mnemosyne: We have black bears here too. They, like Florida panthers, are finally making a comeback (the cats, not the hockey team).
Mnemosyne
@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.
Mnemosyne
By the way, Adam, I think the folks at Duffelblog heard how your last work meeting turned out:
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: Seen a few deer down here in the lowlands.
Adam L Silverman
Adam L Silverman
@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.
Chet Murthy
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.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: “Direct support” is an easy term to define. If you are a gunner. They call, you shoot.
Mnemosyne
@?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.
Mnemosyne
@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.
efgoldman
@Adam L Silverman:
Anybody that’s had to sit thru someone else’s power point presentation in excruciating detail gets it.
Adam L Silverman
@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.
Mnemosyne
@Adam L Silverman:
Okay, Professor Frink.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: No, my thing was arty specific.
Mike in NC
Read today that North Carolina is considering making the hunting of alligators legal again, which was last done in 1973.
??? Martin
@efgoldman: Anyone in academia will get it as well.
Adam L Silverman
@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.
Morzer
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/335780-linkedin-ceo-trump-worse-than-feared
??? Martin
@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.
efgoldman
@Morzer:
Lie down with rats, get up with the plague.
Mnemosyne
@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.
Morzer
Adam L Silverman
@??? 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.
Adam L Silverman
@Mnemosyne: You and your colleague don’t have access to JDAMs and TLAMs.
Morzer
Adam L Silverman
@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.
Adam L Silverman
@Morzer: Also, Russia issued a threat over this 8 days ago:
NotMax
Inadvertently funny – the vid which FYWP chose to offer up for this post on the front page. Not a doctored screenshot.
Morzer
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/musk-threatens-to-quit-advising-if-trump-ditches-paris-deal.html
If Musk thinks that Trump will care about losing him, he’s deluded as to his own importance.
hovercraft
@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.
Calming Influence
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.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman:
You don’t know that, she works for the GEC.
efgoldman
@Calming Influence:
Go to your room!
efgoldman
@hovercraft:
You only have to try it once to disprove it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
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.
Calming Influence
@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.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Omnes Omnibus: I thought you guys mostly did indirect support. If the gunners can actually see the enemy, they’re too close.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Crocodile Dumbdee.
hovercraft
@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?
Adam L Silverman
@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.
Adam L Silverman
@hovercraft: That is my understanding based on the reporting. Also, the Russians have their own copy from their side of the call.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Ah, a Potemkin committee.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Da tovarisch!
Morzer
@NotMax:
A GOPotemkin committee, even.
hovercraft
@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 ;)
efgoldman
@Adam L Silverman:
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.
hovercraft
@NotMax:
Take that back! I’m not some Aussie bushwhacker.
??? Martin
@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.
NotMax
@hovercraft
It was a riff off efgoldman’s comment and not an attempt to cast any aspersion upon you or roil the waters.
Morzer
@??? 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.
hovercraft
@NotMax:
relax, I’m messing with you ; )
satby
@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.
J R in WV
@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.