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It's a trap. He only LOOKS like he's sleeping. Gators are tricky like that. Why? Because everything tastes like chicken to them.Related content
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herofan135 [2010-12-09 09:14:45 +0000 UTC]
Great shot!
And your reply to Firelord made me laugh so much, can't believe that people actually do that.
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seeing-the-dark In reply to herofan135 [2010-12-09 15:43:53 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! And yeah, they do. True story.
A career in advertising, if nothing else, moves you around the country enough to find out all sorts of idiosyncrasies relevant to different geographical areas. I found, in Mississippi, it was all about the Gators. In Alabama, on the other hand, the WTF? surprise is that they find it perfectly acceptable to stop on the highway and back up to reach an exit they meant to take but didn't. And in Texas, if a car pulls up behind you on the highway and you don't hit the shoulder of the road within 3 seconds to let it pass, they are within their state rights to run your car over. While in San Antonio, Texas, in specific, the traffic lights change and the pedestrians DIVE for the sidewalks ... one would assume because your car is not the only thing it's okay to run over if it doesn't get out of the way fast enough.
But the real cultural education is in Nebraska. In Nebraska, on a Saturday, if you are rooting for the wrong team while grocery shopping---they play the football games over the loudspeakers in all stores on game day Saturdays---they are allowed, nay ENCOURAGED, to run you over with their shopping carts.
Being a big football fan myself, I can almost understand that. What I can't understand quite as instinctively is that they are also allowed to run you over with their shopping carts if you aren't rooting for the wrong team, but you also aren't rooting for the Cornhuskers. If you are actually so bold (or foolish) as to go grocery shopping on game day and actually shop rather than rooting for the home team, that is a death penalty offense in Nebraska.
Death by shopping cart battery. And they say TEXAS is harsh.
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herofan135 In reply to seeing-the-dark [2010-12-10 15:44:27 +0000 UTC]
O_o sometimes people scare me, lol.
But that truly made my day, hehe.
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seeing-the-dark In reply to herofan135 [2010-12-10 21:20:35 +0000 UTC]
Glad I could give you a giggle.
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seeing-the-dark In reply to SilverVulpine [2010-12-09 04:18:47 +0000 UTC]
Thanks. She was an impressive one ... and totally unimpressed with us.
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SilverVulpine In reply to seeing-the-dark [2010-12-09 12:42:35 +0000 UTC]
Very much so! She's a real beauty!
Unimpressed as she was.
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seeing-the-dark In reply to Romylyn [2010-03-08 00:22:02 +0000 UTC]
Thanks so much. I appreciate you commenting as you go. Love hearing what you think of specific images.
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Firelord-Lionheart [2010-03-05 03:26:50 +0000 UTC]
Nice shot. Funny thing is, gators aren't that dangerous to humans unless humans are stupid enough to provoke them. Crocs, on the other hand, are far worse.
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seeing-the-dark In reply to Firelord-Lionheart [2010-03-05 06:57:20 +0000 UTC]
When I lived in Mississippi, I was listening to the radio one morning, and the radio guy said "If you go out in your backyard and find a gator sunning itself on your lawn, please do NOT poke it with a stick." I laughed myself sick all the way into work. And was still laughing when I arrived, so I had to explain to the whole agency why I was laughing so hard. Because who in their right mind would see a gator in their yard and think to themselves "Hey, I'm gonna go poke that with a stick." At which time I found the vast majority of my co-workers looking at me like I'd just proved myself out a damn yankee after all, and right after they'd finally removed my "damn" from that designation on the strenght of me learning that y'all was not two words, but rather one. Because as native Mississippians, they all thought, how else you gonna move the gator out of your yard?
I knew right then, no matter what anyone else says, there really IS a huge cultural gap between Mississippi and everywhere else in the United States. And it isn't about race. It's about gators and who you think has the right of way on any lawn where a gator decides to sun itself.
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seeing-the-dark In reply to MewtwosLittleOne [2010-03-03 07:33:20 +0000 UTC]
Thank you.
There's a place in The Black Hills (South Dakota) called Reptile Gardens that has probably 30 gators of varying sizes you can hang out and watch. That's where I took this shot, and where I took this one, too: [link]
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MewtwosLittleOne In reply to seeing-the-dark [2010-03-05 05:25:59 +0000 UTC]
You're so lucky. Were you behind barriers or what? I never been there.
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seeing-the-dark In reply to MewtwosLittleOne [2010-03-05 06:35:19 +0000 UTC]
Yup, there were barrier for protection's sake. But because gators aren't much for jumping they weren't that high, and it was open air above them, rather than any kind of view-obstructing screen/net/bars. And I think they keep the gators pretty well fed ... although the guy handling them that day wasn't the regular guy, because the regular guy had gotten his hand bitten earlier in the day ... and this guy had his hand bitten while we were there. Gators must have been in a pissy mood or something ...
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