Re: [Paddlewise] Another incidence of the amusement park syndrome

I was a 'Gator for 4 years. Gators' are particularly active on Saturday 
afternoons
in the fall. They generally won't take your arm off unless you stick it out.
Go Tim Tebow and company.

Brad

From: Joe P.

>  As you say, 'Gators aren't usually that interested in you as lunch.  I 
> would think that since this was a night attack the gator probably was 
> unable to identify his prey as a human.
>   Mating time isn't good either.  A bull gator is like a Moose or buck in 
> heat -- brains disappear.  Buat also watch out once the young hatch.  Mama 
> is very defensive.  An acquaintance of mine in Florida, a botanist, had 
> his arm taken off a few years ago when he inadvertently got between some 
> younkers and Mama...
>   When I lived in Florida lo those many years ago, I paddled among them 
> without any feelings of trepidation.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Steve Cramer <cramersec_at_charter.net>
>>>Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Another incidence of the "amusement park 
>>>syndrome"
>>If people in Florida didn't swim in lakes and rivers where alligators
>>live, there would be a lot of hot dry people in Florida. People and
>>alligators share water all the time in the South, and alligator attacks
>>are pretty rare.
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