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

This is precisely why you would not want to go swimming in the
New York City sewer system.

Brad


> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Steve Cramer <cramersec_at_charter.net>
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> If people in Florida swam at night in canals full of gators during mating
> season.... then I suspect there would be a lot fewer people in Florida.
>
>> What if they had been partying at Daytona Beach and gone for a midnight
>> swim in the ocean and gotten shark bit? Would you still shake your head 
>> and
>> say "What was he thinking?"?
>
> Yup... if there were signs around the area saying "shark infested area" 
> and
> did it at precisely the time that the sharks would be actively feeding. 
> And
> if they ignored people on shore screaming at him to get out of the water
> because a shark was following him. This wasn't just a simming accident, he
> did almost everything wrong. And without being drunk (they say).
>
> The kid is now saying that it's the fault of the environmentalists for
> allowing the population of alligators to rise to such a high level. Maybe
> he's right. I wondered about that years ago when it became clear that
> alligators could breed much faster than people had thought.
>
> Craig
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