Mike in Chi

Go to Sebring.

Good tail, and also a bar with it's own live 12 ft gator

Bull

You Calyfornians are so violent!

Bonster

Lol, I've passed by that bar, Mike. It's on the left hand side on the way to the track if you stay in town (before the lake). There is a great seafood bar also on the left -- Blue 'something', can't remember. And you guys would probably like the scantily dressed gals that work there. But seriously, they had some great food there.

I've never actually had gator tail -- John says it's good and I should try it. There's just something about eating a dirty critter that once combed the dirty, smelly swamps that turns me off of eating a gator -- tail or any other part. I hadn't seen any in the stores lately -- are they back to normal population I wonder? Anyway, sorry Bob but if a gator was getting too close for comfort he'd be shot. I guess I just don't like the idea of losing a limb to a hungry alligator.

Bull

From the gator's perspective, you got too close, not him.... Must you solve everything with such violence?????

Mike in Chi

Perhaps you should try pork from a pen.

Bonster

***There have been incidents where (especially during a drought, much like this year) gators have come into neighborhoods. John doesn't live in the swamp, but it's not far away at all. Violence? Nah. Self preservation, you betcha. I protect myself mostly by simply not wandering out into the bushes. Kinda like why I didn't swim much in the Gulf channel the other day -- too many jellyfish! Ouch!

Bonster

***What the heck is that, dare I ask?

Mike in Chi

Some pigs are raised in dirtier conditions than most alligators

2BWise

Yeah, gotta avoid the big bushes. You never know what could be hiding in a big bush. It might try and eat you. Stick with the neatly trimmed ones and there's no problem.

Bull

Excellent advice!

TD in DC

Pussies.

Bull

Then it is his bush, isn't it? And why doesn't the neighborhood put up a gator fence like most do?

I suspect you see them and just start thinking "luggage".

Bull

Or chicken, or chicken eggs, from a chicken farm.

Bull

2Bwise is thinking more Mexican Hairless than Maine Coon.

Bonster

No, Bob, the swampy areas are a little too far away for a fence to be needed. I've never been to the swamp areas, but you can see them clearly from the plane as you come into the airport (in Fort Walton Beach, on Eglin AFB). At the motel we stayed in when I went to Sebring, we went on a walk over by a hospital there. There were a lot of relief areas, one of which we saw a small gator swimming in. Way cooler than a trip to the zoo. And no, I don't belive in using gator skin. It's one thing if they are too abundant and folks hunt them to keep the population in check, but I'd never go for just killing something for its skin. Cows . . . that's a different story. I mean, we use them for more than just their hide.