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alligator issues

RobinRobin Member Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited June 2008 in General Discussion
Good afternoon gentlemen:
This morning the teenager from Florida that lost his arm to a 11 1/2' alligator was on the Today Show. While I can't imagine doing something like taking a swim at 2:00 AM in a canal known to have resident alligators, I have done my share of dumb things. There was something interesting brought up about alliagator harvests. According to the victim, applications for the annual alligator harvest are filed by and granted to animal activists. According to him, the activists granted applications have no intention of filling the tag resulting in harvests below FWC's expectations. Does anyone know if this statement is factual or what percentage of permits are actually used by hunters?

Finally, I wonder if the same thing goes on with other lottery type hunts like elk & deer?

Edit: I am certainly not saying this kid is not responsible for what happened. Doing really dumb things certainly has consequenses. I am just saying that there needs to be some sort of reconciliation of permits issued to confirmed harvests if that is the purpose of the state sanctioned alligator hunts. If anyone is in the Central Florida area near Orlando, drive across Lake Jessup on 417. At times it looks like you could walk across the lake on the backs of alligators. It doesn't seem like that is a healthy or safe situation but I am not a wildlife biologist either.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Probably no game and fish departments are in a position to know that, so it is likely myth. While there may be some cases of that happening, the most one reports is whether you hunted or not, and if so what you took so who whould know? Last year my mother moved and I was unable to make a deer hunt. All game and fish knows is that I drew and did not hunt. They do not know whether I am a deer preservationist, got three already poaching or anything else.

    Even assuming it is true it does not become the fault of the activists that he was attacked while swimming at night in alligator habitat. To bad it happened, but all he had to do was stay out of the water.
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  • spryorspryor Member Posts: 9,155
    edited November -1
    I saw that same thing, and wondered if the same may not apply to the
    Mtn. Lion attacks.. hmmmm.
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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I really hope there is no truth to it. We have way too many of those animals in the Mobile Bay/Delta area. I wouldn't be upset if all those creatures were killed.
    That is one animal I have zilch sympathy for (I lost a German Shepard to one).
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  • kimikimi Member Posts: 44,719 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25352696/
    What's next?
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  • ruger41ruger41 Member Posts: 14,665 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If that guy went swimming in a canal KNOWN to have gators and at night then I nominate him for a Darwin Award[B)]
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  • TwoDogsTwoDogs Member Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Came nose to nose with this dude twice coming from
    one of my favorite fishin spots.
    Wardens moved and marked him once in 2006.(chunk out of the tip of his tail)
    When he returned they wacked him. (Close to kids) He was weighed and measured 13' + change and 800+lbs.
    This pic was near two years ago.
    gator2.jpg
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  • shooter4shooter4 Member Posts: 4,457
    edited November -1
    Way I see it is if you go swimming in the dark in a known alligator infested area, you are on your own.
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  • wartigerwartiger Member Posts: 3,861
    edited November -1
    Kinda like playing in the rain and then bitchin about getting wet. Sorry ol'boy lost a limb, but sounds to me it matches his missing brain.
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  • Spc FergusonSpc Ferguson Member Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    so basically he knew he was going swimming were alligators are, so he knew the risks and ignored them. And holy god twodogs i definitely wouldnt be fishing in that area.
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  • minitruck83minitruck83 Member Posts: 5,369
    edited November -1
    Local paper this morning. Answer from the state

    www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/jun/27/state-defends-gator-record/


    The guy is grinnin like a possum in every photo taken so far. Either it's the painkillers or he's an idjit. (or both) [8D]





    Allen
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