Posted on 04/22/2024 9:25:02 AM PDT by V_TWIN
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A viewer sent into Action News Jax a video of a man wrestling an alligator in the middle of the road Sunday.
This happened on Edgewood Avenue. The video shows the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was also on the scene too.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said mating season for gators runs from late May to early June.
Just the tail meat......no self respecting Floridian would eat any other part.......it’s just not done.
Yeah, not many men can get away with that.
One of the best meals I’ve had was during Hurricane Hugo (89). Power was out for days and all the neighbors were pulling food out of their freezers, cooking and sharing. One neighbor (from Louisiana) was cooking fried gator tail, while we were cooking filets. Surf & Turf...yum.
Since then, I’ve made it a point to try gator when I find it on a menu.
Just curious. If a Gator loses it’s tail does it grow back ?
“If a Gator loses it’s tail does it grow back?”
Nope.....it’s lights out.
Yep...that’s all I’ve ever eaten, the tail meat.
Let's ask him!
A very REAL Florida Man. Barefoot too. Big dude. This is a gator hunter. No big deal- small gator. And electrical tape wrapped 3 or 4 times once you hold the mouth shut (weak opening muscles- extreme strong closing ones!) and pull the head back— it disorients them and time to tape close. What is another clue is he didn’t tie back the feet and picked the whole thing up with the powerful tail trying to whomp him.
Florida Gator Man.
Who isn’t southern at all and his real voice lets all know.
He copied guys who dress like this all the time. There are shirt brands who sell seamed armless shirts, plaid and other- seriously. Country Western/Rodeo supply stores.
Jeff Foxworthy at least was from the South. But the original from Georgia was Lewis Grizzard, who had he lived, there would NOT ever have been a President Clinton. He had his number right down to the astroturfed El Camino Billy Cokenose used to drive around to pick up... slag.
Grizzard on the Last Confederat Soldier- priceless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ4u-BnVVJQ
“I did like watching him try to get the duct tape off with one hand...:)”
Cop stayed away!
Impressive!
Do they need “Warning Horny Gator” Signs?
I loved reading Grizzard. I still have my copy of “Elvis is Dead and I Don’t Feel So Good Myself.” I may have to re-read that; it’s been a while.
That little lizard? 😁
That guy was an idiot, and many times obviously had a defanged snake or some other hobbled animal. This croc most likely was sedated. None that size would ever allow some clown on his knees to crawl up that close between his front and back legs or especially in front of his front leg.
Sedated.
This was a cameo for a spoof, I don’t remember which one...it is an inflatable gator similar to the one in Happy Gilmore.
That being said, Steve Irwin was a great host and brought good heartedness to the animal kingdom.
THAT being said, he WAS just a little TOO friendly with the stingrays...I guess they never watched his show...
They looked like they enjoyed the spectacle! I wonder if they called and the guy showed up barefoot in his sleeveless flannel shirt, or if he was just a passerby in a car.
I like the story, and he did a professional job!
I know it it had been me, I would have tried to rip that duct tape off with one hand, it would have gotten stuck to itself, I would have been cussing and losing my grip on the gator because I was paying attention to the damn sticky tape, and next thing, that gator would have been doing death rolls on the ground, my hand, duct tape and all, in its mouth!
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