I'm from Florida. He was definitely not after them. They move so fast and those people were moving so slow. He would've been on them in seconds if he so called wanted them.
If you’re from Florida, you obviously don’t know $h!t about alligators. These are unpredictable, opportunistic, ambush predators that will eat whatever they can catch and kill when hungry (including humans). You have absolutely zero way of understanding what that gator’s intentions are. You sound more like an activist regurgitating what you heard on the discovery channel.
I'm from Vero Beach and I totally agree with you used to go to Hobart Park all the time and these Gators move so fast that Gator wanted you it would have had them it was just warning them off maybe a kid was pulling grass or something underneath the water like messing with the mud which encroaches on an alligator's territory
Here in Florida, any river, any lake, any canal, any puddle (LOL) can have an alligator in it. Swimming Pools are a great substitute (though sometimes those critters get in a pool too).
I've been fishing there for over fifty years. The alligators are often fed by visitors though there are signs everywhere restricting these activities. I know this alligator. He is looking for a handout because he has been fed many times. Trust me when I say, if he was actually interested in catching anything it would have already happened...
I respectfully disagree just because it hasn’t happend yet doesn’t mean it wont. There is a reason you are told not to feed wild animals by the rangers. The reason being those animals will get to familiar with people and lose their natural fear of us. When that happens conflicts with those animals are far more likely. Which normal ends on someone dead or injured and the animal eliminated.
I accidentally swam with the gators at Martin Dies Jr State Park in Jasper. Despite it being a known spot for alligators, there were ZERO signs posted at the DESIGNATED SWIMMING AREA warning us about the gators. When we mentioned this to park rangers before leaving, we told they keep info about the gators at the Rangers station. We'll that's funny cuz we stopped at the station, made chit chat with the rangers, picked up any free pamphlets and maps they had, and not a WORD was mentioned by the rangers or in the park info handouts. Rather than questioning the swimmers, did yall question why the state would maintain a designated swimming area in the path of gators? Or ask if there were any signs posted? Did those signs warn people not to swim at night but failing to mention no swimming after 6 when the alligators begin moving to their feeding grounds? I'm just sayin.... it happened to me
I’ve lived in a near by town my entire life. There have always been gators there. Even in the 90s we would see a bunch of them. Swim at your own risk. Just like going into the ocean. Their habitat. Take your chances lol. 😅
I do not understand why people would even bathe in those type of lakes? I mean, maybe dip your your toes right on the shore or something like that is fine, but to literally go swim in these types of lakes, especially knowing that there's alligators in East Texas, and I mean anywhere from North Texas all the way down to the Gulf Coast. It doesn't make any sense why somebody would do that...... I would rather save money and spend time at a beach somewhere in Florida... or if you don't or can't go out of state, then at least go to the beach at the coast here in Texas from South Padre all the way up to Galveston...
Ok, I know what I heard, I even watched this again to make sure......he said.....theres a sign, and that sign says, swim at your own risk, he also said, this swimming spot has been known to have gators, da fuk am I missing here????? There's even a wooden deck for diving off of......
Enjoy these damn things. Now they will get overpopulated and you won’t be able to swim anywhere and you won’t be able to do a thing about it. Get ready for more attitudes like the newscaster’s too. “They’re there don’t swim there”…
Definitely not chasing after them. He was just enjoying a nice swim at the lake like the rest of the park-goers. No lie, this is what it is like being black.
I am sick of people saying ‘it’s their home not ours ’. Where are people exactly supposed to live? Not in the mountains, not in the forests, not near water & better not get in. Where do people think we were for thousands of years? Not packed in cities. I don’t know this situation but sometimes local people just expect others to magically know a bad place for certain animals, crime or weather. Yes, people should do some homework but you aren’t going to know it all. Why would there be a diving platform & swimming area in a know alligator area?
Darwin Award Winners! . .Well not exactly. . .If you SPLASH AROUND they come out. . .If you just do not go to that park. . then this wouldn't make the news. . .DUH! 🤪
