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Florida Gator: Swimming Pool Edition!

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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

    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

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

  3. 3.

    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.

  4. 4.

    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?

  6. 6.

    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

  7. 7.

    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.

  9. 9.

    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.

  13. 13.

    Barbara

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

  14. 14.

    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.

  15. 15.

    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.”

  18. 18.

    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).

  20. 20.

    Mnemosyne

    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.”

  23. 23.

    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.

  26. 26.

    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.

  28. 28.

    efgoldman

    @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

    @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.

  32. 32.

    Mike in NC

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

  34. 34.

    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.

  35. 35.

    Morzer

    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

    @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

    @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

    @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

    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

    @??‍? 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.

  42. 42.

    Morzer

    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

    @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.

  46. 46.

    Morzer

    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

    @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

    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.

  51. 51.

    efgoldman

    @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

    @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

    @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.

  56. 56.

    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?

  58. 58.

    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.

  62. 62.

    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 ;)

  63. 63.

    efgoldman

    @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.

  65. 65.

    ??‍? 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.

  67. 67.

    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.

  70. 70.

    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.

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