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Alligator Emerges from Water, Suddenly Drags 85-Year-Old Woman Under and Kills Her

https://www.westernjournal.com/alligator-emerges-water-suddenly-drags-85-year-old-woman-kills/

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Ooof

Wonder if she was a New York transplant

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Condolences to the poor old lady and her family, what a terrifying way to go! She was trying to save her dog and instead became the target.
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"They move around at night, you’ll see them walking from pond to pond."


Seems like a good opportunity for some late night target practice....Probably a gun free zone.

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"They move around at night, you’ll see them walking from pond to pond."


Seems like a good opportunity for some late night target practice....Probably a gun free zone.

Actually Florida is very 2nd Amendment oriented, perhaps that neighborhood isn't? Gators are just big reptiles, they eat whatever they can get a grip on. Florida has greatly decreased the gator population because numerous people have been eaten in recent years.
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It was near an assisted living area, might have been a disaster waiting to happen.  Lot of folks from New York and other states without gators, walking little bite size dogs

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It was near an assisted living area, might have been a disaster waiting to happen.  Lot of folks from New York and other states without gators, walking little bite size dogs

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"They move around at night, you’ll see them walking from pond to pond."


Seems like a good opportunity for some late night target practice....Probably a gun free zone.

Actually Florida is very 2nd Amendment oriented, perhaps that neighborhood isn't? Gators are just big reptiles, they eat whatever they can get a grip on. Florida has greatly decreased the gator population because numerous people have been eaten in recent years.

Pretty sure it’s a golf course community.
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I've always been surprised that this doesn't happen more in FL...seems like every body of water has gators no matter how small. It's a good thing they're less aggressive than crocs.

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My son played some minor league ball for awhile for the Red Sox, spring training is in Fort Meyers Florida. My dad and I went down to watch him about 20 or so years ago. In between workouts and games we would all go bass fishing along with a couple other players. My dad or I had never bass fished before at that time, so we were pretty amazed by our experience. Because of time restraints for workouts, routines etc we stayed close to the facilities. One day for instance we hit some seep holes/ ponds behind a Walmart! Cought 13 or 14 nice fish! Then another time hit some canals that flowed through a trailer park and caught a bunch. Then one time we went into a golf course near the facility, this was an experience I’ll never forget. We had myself and my dad along with my son and two other ball players in a rented Hummer that one of the other players had for the duration of spring training, we had no golf clubs, just tackle boxes and bass rigs.we went through the security entrance and drove into an area that held some water hazards. We walked through a foursome that included David Ortiz and John Smoltz. They seen us heading towards the ponds when Smoltz yells out “hey, where’s your boat!”🤣. We all proceed to spread out around the 2 small ponds and start casting plastic worms and frogs. People in townhouses watching us while sipping on drinks. We were catching fish one after another, when on one cast my dad yells out “I think I got a good one here”, the fish had jumped once then disappeared, my dads rod bent in half. He reeled a bit when up popped a gator with my dads fish in its mouth! It hung on all the way to the bank, about 4 feet or so long. Smoltz yells out, oh ya, we forgot to tell you guys, I’m pretty sure he ate one of our golf balls!🤣

The whole dang state seems like it’s waterlogged, full of seep holes, ponds, swamps and canals, most filled with fish AND gators, it’s just something most everyone down there deals with. We drove through “Alligator Alley”one evening, plane weird driving through there at night. It’s a stretch of high way by the Everglades that has about 3 foot high electric fencing along the shoulder, it goes for miles and miles. The fencing is to keep gators from coming out onto the highway at night to warm themselves on the warm pavement. Apparently there used to be a lot of human fatalities on that stretch of highway before the fencing went up. I guess running over a 10 foot gator at 60 mph is not good. When we drove through there all we could see is eyeballs lined along the fence, just looking at the nice warm pavement.

My condolences for the lady and her family.

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She didn't even try to move until the gator was coming out of the water.  Very sad but it was completely avoidable in my opinion.

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Was she vaccinated?

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In the video they mention "the 11 foot gator was a common fixture, even had a name, 'Henry'..." Uh, anyone else see a problem with an 11 foot gator seen so frequently near a retirement community and they gave it a name? I mean really, "Henry"??? maybe Chompers, 'Chew'bacha, or "Sir Snacks a Lot"...but not Henry.
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In the video they mention "the 11 foot gator was a common fixture, even had a name, 'Henry'..." Uh, anyone else see a problem with an 11 foot gator seen so frequently near a retirement community and they gave it a name? I mean really, "Henry"??? maybe Chompers, 'Chew'bacha, or "Sir Snacks a Lot"...but not Henry.

Eh, gators are so common down there it's not surprising at all. You see signs up around ponds sometimes but people just live with em. Depending on source and time frame of data, there are 3-10 attacks per year. Closer to the higher end of that range in recent years. Meanwhile, shark attacks in Florida are a 22/year for a five year average.

Not Florida, but I spent high school living on the water next to a slough called "alligator bayou". Paid them no attention most of the time. Neighbor did get permission from F&G to shoot one that bit his dog. Wakeboarded 10' from one one, there was some pucker factor there. They leave people alone 99.9% of the time.

 


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