It’s not a pool party till someone loses a limb!!!!
Alligator takes a dip in central Florida swimming pool
(Via WSVN) https://t.co/ewbnftfxzC
— Larue's Legacy Bulldog Rescue (@LaruesCrewAdopt) April 23, 2018
WOW? – No fear from “Mr. Duck” ?when District 3 Deputies assisted a licensed trapper with a 9’ gator removal from a residence within the Eagle’s community on Muirfield Drive? pic.twitter.com/tiVPn7WYH3
— HCSO (@HCSOSheriff) April 19, 2018
ODESSA, Fla. (WSVN) — This is one alligator that really didn’t want to get out of the pool.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said the 9-foot gator threw a bit of a temper tantrum as a trapper and deputies worked to capture the reptile on Thursday.
The alligator had somehow made its way into the homeowner’s screened-in patio in Odessa, about 25 miles north of Tampa.
The animal was safely removed from the water.
Anyone who spots an alligator should call local law enforcement or the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission in order to have it safely captured.
Stay scaly and remember to run in a serpentine or not!
Open thread.
Mike J
It’s not an alligator it’s a magazine.
Adam L Silverman
@Mike J: I don’t get it.
Suzanne
@Mike J: LMAO.
Achrachno
@Mike J: You sure it’s not an alligator clip?
Mike J
@Adam L Silverman: People often confuse alligators and crocodiles. Some people are overly pedantic about magazines and clips. It was a joke that took one from each column.
efgoldman
@Adam L Silverman: Is this a good place to mention that a superhot goalie can frustrate the ever loving fuck out of a superior team and steal a series?
Toronto’s Anderson has been otherworldly. They forced a game seven vs the Bruins they have no business playing.
Amir Khalid
That photo in the first tweet: “NOOOOO! I’m staying right here, I tell you!”
Adam L Silverman
@Mike J: Gotcha! Now I’m tracking.
Major Major Major Major
Now we have to stay scaly, too!‽
@Achrachno: zing!
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: Yes, yes it is. You almost saw it with Hammond for Colorado. And it was a major worry in regard to Schneider in New Jersey. It also shows you just how skilled even the back up goalies with the terrible records, such as Hammond and Schneider, are.
As a Lightning fan I’m happy the Bruins and Leafs are going to seven games. I want whoever wins to come out tired and beat up.
Adam L Silverman
@Amir Khalid: Moooom! I don’t want to get out of the pool and do my homework!!!!
scav
My admiration for rubber ducks is only enhanced.
Adam L Silverman
@scav: Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDy4PZPMDwU
Davebo
In my experience alligators run from you. Still, knowing they are afraid of you doesn’t help when you wade up on one not noticing and they splash around running/swimming away! #stainedwaders
trollhattan
Pool duck simultaneously frosty+hydrated. Much respect for pool duck.
Dang big gator is dang big. Can the pythons be far behind?
EBT
Queercation is a roaring success still.
No Drought No More
Speaking of Guadalcanal: The WW2 U.S. Marine Eugene Sledge wrote about alligators in the aftermath of the first major action against Japanese troops on Guadalcanal. He told how he swam across the river which had separated the Marines from that enemy attack of the night before. The Japanese had been had been slaughtered, and Sledge’s curiosity had got the best of him. But once across the sight revolted him, and he quickly swam back. Near dusk an alarm went up that objects could be seen in the water approaching Marine lines from upriver. They were the island’s gators, in fact, huge suckers of whose existence Sledge had been unaware when he’d made his swim earlier in the day. That nigh, and for nights afterward, as he manned his foxhole, Sledge could hear them munching away on the Japanese soldiers, until those soldiers were all gone.
Adam L Silverman
@trollhattan: They’ve been doing huge eradication projects.
https://www.sfwmd.gov/our-work/python-program
Omnes Omnibus
@EBT: I am happy for you.
efgoldman
@Adam L Silverman:
The Broons played Tampa tough in the regular season, when it really didn’t matter. I don’t think either team takes the lightning out.
trollhattan
@Adam L Silverman:
Eleven at 15+ feet? Oh hayull, my car is 15′.
opiejeanne
@trollhattan: Too damned big for a snake of any variety. I’ll stick with the little green garter snakes in my garden, although one of them is not so small these days. Must be doing ok with all of the mice in our yard.
Achrachno
@Adam L Silverman: Have they tried snake traps? E.g., “The First Creative Snake Trap That Works 100% by Smart Boy” — kid catching large python in Cambodia.
oatler.
Remember The In-Laws? “Serpentine! Serpentine!”
Chet Murthy
@Achrachno: That kid’s one brave (or foolhardy) fellow.
Barbara
That spinning is amazing to see. That’s how alligators kill their prey (by drowning them).
pluky
do they really need to caution people to call in professionals to remove a nine foot gator? granted Florida, but sheesh!