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I had a slightly different experience. A few years ago, while vacationing in FL, I spotted a lawn statue of a 4-foor alligator next to a parking lot of a hotel. From a distance it looked quite similar to a real animal, and I decided to tease my wife showing how brave I was to come close and extend my arm to pet it. As soon as I achieved my goal of scaring my wife, the statue sharply turned around and moved toward the nearest pond.Mike
WI/IL border, USA
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I have a similar story about a rattlesnake. A fellow camping next to me at a campground in Idaho killed a rattlesnake at suppertime one night, by chopping its head off with a shovel. In the campground bar that evening, everyone told him he should cut off and keep the rattle. He went out, and came back ten minutes later with the rattle. The next morning, when it was light out, he sees the rattlesnake he killed lying there without a head but still with a rattle. We looked, but we didn't find a snake without a rattle that still had its head.
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paulsv: Hahahhaa! somewhere, theres a really ticked off rattleless snake roaming around..Play Brutal Nature, Black Moons free to play highly realistic voxel sandbox game.
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Actually it is not funny. It is a symptom of the trigger happiness of the police in general.
Here in Tucson a SWAT team broke into an occupied house without warning. The man's wife woke him and he got a rifle. They fired 71 shots at about 10 ft range. They refused to let EMS in for a hour until he was dead. The safety was on on his rifle, he never fired a shot. This was to execute a search warrant for drugs and such. None found . NOTHING illegal found. They knew where he worked and could have pulled him over without incident but that doesn't get you any headlines.
Next time you think trigger happy cops are funny, Google Jose Guerena.Last edited by tdmidget; 06-03-2011, 06:26 PM.
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Well this is hardly in the same category. ...unless you are one who believes concrete alligators have the same rights as humanoids. (I'm sure some people do.)
According to the article there was consultation with a conservation officer beforehand. So it sounds like guilt, on the part of the alligator, was reasonably well established before they tried to take him down.Lynn (Huntsville, AL)
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What kind of conservation officer thought that there could be an alligator of threatening size in MISSOURI? They are indeed easy to kill with a blow to the head, just above the eyes. Good bonk with a club and he's dead, no hole to devalue the hide. So why the long range rifle shot? Are these guys so gutless that they can't walk up with a pistol and do it at close range?
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[quote=lynnl]Well this is hardly in the same category. ...unless you are one who believes concrete alligators have the same rights as humanoids. (I'm sure some people do.)
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Sadly in Britain there is more law protecting property than law protecting people.
Kill someone & you go down for 'life ' = approx 8 yrs
Steal a load of gold, diamonds or old Bank notes & you get 30 yrs
What does that say about our society
john
John
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure , but I'm not a complete idiot - some bits are still missing
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About 20 years ago there was a semi passing through town on the interstate.It had two coils of steel on the trailer one of which slipped it's binders and fell off in the middle of the southbound lane.
There is a reason they only put two or sometimes one coil of steel on a flatbed-they are F-ing heavy.The one that fell off landed nearly flat on it's side and busted a 6' foot diameter hole in the concrete and sank in about 6".
On the scene were two city cops with police cruisers and nylon tow straps burning rubber trying to move the probably 20,000lb coil out of the road.
It was then that I realized not every officer comes from the brain trust.I just need one more tool,just one!
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I live in TN where black bears are common in the wilderness but not in town. One night after dark a black bear was in my driveway snooping around my garage. I called the police and they insisted I must be drunk or high on something and refused to come. I took some photos and sent them to the news paper and the put the photos in the paper. A week later some woman reported a black bear at her back door police still would not check it out. The police insist bears do not come into town they are affraid of people. My house is at the very edge of town not in town and the woman that had a bear at her door lives about 1/4 mile from town but still in the city limits. I guess the police were too busy at the donut shop to waste time on this.Last edited by Guest; 06-03-2011, 08:39 PM.
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Just a bit:
Back a few years ago the cops were all over hiding in cruisers watching for an escapee from jail. I had a police scanner and listening to it,, the one cop gets a call to go "NOW" ASAP to a certain site.
In a minute that cop that was to go "NOW!", calls on his radio,,,
"Anybody know who has the Booster Cables"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A few replied "No",, then one thought they were back at the police station!!!
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