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On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:21:34 -0400, Wayne.B
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On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:32:45 -0400, wrote:
Another point, it makes the predators associate people with food.
Sometimes they get confused whether the people provide food or ARE
food. Hence most alligator attacks in Florida.
I always have to chuckle at the typical environmentalist response to
alligator attacks in Florida. The attacks are always blamed on humans
feeding the gators. Their logic is irrefutable I guess.
It is pretty accurate. Just look at where the attacks in SW Florida
occured. People in Sanibel were treating gators like household pets
until that real estate lady got ate. They had a 12 footer that hung
out at the Dairy Queen on Bullwinkle. Bird Westall would come over
about once a week and drag him over to Ding. The next day he was back
eating ice cream cones. I think that may have been the one who ate the
lady but if not it was his brother. They had a bunch of them.
The kid up in Charlotte was a similar story. People had been feeding
that gator for years. For some reason people think seeing a gator eat
a hot dog makes them a native.
BTW the other way people get gator or snake bit is screwing with one
that would just as soon run away.
Two years ago, I was wading a nice trout stream in October. Next day on the
news, "DEC Captures Half of Croc Pair" or something like that. Somehow, they
identified the idiot who had releases two of the monsters into that same
creek, so they knew there were two. They said winter would take care of the
other one. It sure put an end to trout fishing on that stream quickly for
the rest of the season. :-)