BOY THIS MAKES ME MAD !!!!!!!!!

[Hawkfish3.0]

Fair point. Then again we live in a world where common sense has left us, and we need to be told all the facts for everything otherwise, it's looking for someone else to blame.

I agree! We live in a world that gives us warnings like these:

 

[puffcrusader696]

poor gators. they didnt deserve it. and i agree with most of the posts on here.

 

[armac]

let's hear from some Florida folks, when I was in South Florida gators were eating the neighborhood dogs, there comes a time when gator will over populate an area, this might be a similar case.

 

[cichlid2006]

let's hear from some Florida folks, when I was in South Florida gators were eating the neighborhood dogs, there comes a time when gator will over populate an area, this might be a similar case.

i dont think a stupid drunk teenager swimming in gator infested waters comes down to over population. more a stupid teen that deserved everything he got because when in water we are the proverbial "fish out of water". as there were probably warning signs everywhere its his own fault and the gators dont deserve to be killed for doing what they do best.

i do see your point though about gators numbers possibly getting too large, although IMO i dont think it applies here to this specific attack as he went into the water of his own accord and the gator didnt come into his home/garden. from the documentries i watch there is now talk of possible culling to control numbers as their protection has been a greater success than many had hoped/expected.

 

[Hawkfish3.0]

i dont think a stupid drunk teenager swimming in gator infested waters comes down to over population. more a stupid teen that deserved everything he got because when in water we are the proverbial "fish out of water". as there were probably warning signs everywhere its his own fault and the gators dont deserve to be killed for doing what they do best.

i do see your point though about gators numbers possibly getting too large, although IMO i dont think it applies here to this specific attack as he went into the water of his own accord and the gator didnt come into his home/garden. from the documentries i watch there is now talk of possible culling to control numbers as their protection has been a greater success than many had hoped/expected.

I agree that overpopulation is not a viable argument for the stupid kid. I just wanted to point out that, even though he's an idiot, he did make a valid point about the gator population.

 

[headbanger_jib]

in the end it all comes down to survival of the fittest
the gators might be perfectly evolved to hunt and eat, but it is us who are the fittest
with all our extreme gadgets and tools and weapons
so it all depends on what the stupid pen pusher decides what has to survive and what doesn't
though the kid deserved it and the gators did not deserve it
and living here in india i know pretty well about the whose-land-is-it-anyways argument
people tear jungles apart for land for farms or house and the animals enter the land for food
when they both meet one of them dies
sometimes its the animal sometimes its the stupid encroacher(people)
and then comes the full fledged genocide against the animal
in the end the animals get the deal the humans don't want

 

[Alan Russell]

"Ain't the word Killer Whale enough of a warning sign to keep your water head kid out of the fish tank? You ain't gotta be head cashier at the Wal-Mart to figure out you don't swim with the killer shark fish." -Larry The Cable Guy

I'm pretty sure he would apply this to alligators as well.

 

[BIGgourami]

^you would think, wouldn't ya?^

yet still people do this s(&^

 

[Hawkfish3.0]

in the end it all comes down to survival of the fittest
the gators might be perfectly evolved to hunt and eat, but it is us who are the fittest
with all our extreme gadgets and tools and weapons
so it all depends on what the stupid pen pusher decides what has to survive and what doesn't
though the kid deserved it and the gators did not deserve it
and living here in india i know pretty well about the whose-land-is-it-anyways argument
people tear jungles apart for land for farms or house and the animals enter the land for food
when they both meet one of them dies
sometimes its the animal sometimes its the stupid encroacher(people)
and then comes the full fledged genocide against the animal
in the end the animals get the deal the humans don't want

Hold your horses there, friend! We are currently the apex predator of this planet, but these animals have been on this planet for millions of years. From an evolutionary standpoint, we have far more to worry about than gators. Who knows, we could become extinct in a matter of weeks if the right virus spreads across our planet, leaving the gators to reproduce as much as they like. Just something to think about.

 

[Bderick67]

They trapped and killed 8 gators? Would like the link to this story

More then likely the gator that attacked was trapped and killed, but not to recover the arm. This is a common occurance with individual animals that attack humans.