News story on the tube tonight:
Kid swimming in Florida swamp gets arm chomped off by alligator. Alligator killed; arm retrieved but could not be reattached.
Arrrrrghhh! I'm pissed that they killed the gator. Allow me to rant.
The kid was stoopid, the adults were stoopid, the only one with any sense was the gator and he didn't fare too well.
If you live in Florida you know the swamps are teaming with gators. If you go swimming in an alligator's living room and make flappy, splashy noises like alligator food and get your arm bitten off, you got what you deserved. It's not like the gator crawled into the kid's backyard and snagged him off the patio or anything.
You're supposed to be smarter than the gator, kid. Their itty bitty reptilian brains only process "eat", "poop", and "boink." They don't lay around in the murky water doing calculus or anything.
Killing the gator to retrieve the arm was pretty stoopid because after a few minutes it would have started being digested. I'm sure it took them more than a few minutes to catch and kill the poor animal.
The only fault of the gator in this whole fiasco was his aim. He should have gone for the kid's head.
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Addendum:
After re-reading this post, I realize I sound cold and heartless about some child getting chomped. This was not a small child. The "kid" was 19-20 years old and swimming with his buddies who all should have known better. I'm an old fart. The term "kid" applies to anyone under the age of 25.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Alligator Food Rant
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6 comments:
Yeah, surprising that they thought they could reattach the arm. Of course, I'm always surprised when various appendages get chopped off and somehow end up back with their owners. But from inside a gator's stomach? Nah, no thanks.
That is definitely my favorite piece of your artwork.
VERY clever. Very well done!
You gotta wonder about people don't you? Barnum was right!
Another story I heard from one of the National Parks here - some dumb woman put honey on her kid's head because she thought it would attract a bear and she could get a cute picture of her baby-poo with a bear - baby-poo no doubt at that point being headless!
I thought I posted a comment on here yesterday...dang calculagator ate it. Very nice comic.
Calculagator....HAHAHAHAHAHA! Love it!
it's a shame the gator didn't get his nuts. what if someone that idiotic reproduces???
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