You Won't Believe What Happened in Orlando Next ...

The story I read on CNN said those signs were visible from all vantage points.

 

They should just have signs at the borders that say, "You're about to enter Florida. Are you sure about that?"

 

Four alligators, all from that same lake? Smack dab in the middle of a highly populated resort area?

Maybe all the officials and such insisting this is so rare ought to reconsider.

 

I would imagine they cut the gators open to examine the contents of their stomachs. When I lived in Jacksonville, a guy lost his dog to a gator while walking somewhere near the intercoastal waterway.

I have a 2-year-old, and I can't imagine the horror this family is going through.

 

Could the parents be making this up?

 

As in the child's fate is more sinister?

 

Considering all the outrage there was about shooting the West Palm Beach zoo tiger and the Cincinnati zoo gorilla, wouldn't you think animal rights activists would be upset that they're slicing open every alligator they find?

 

There are alligators in virtually every lake and pond in Florida. Some are very big. We went canoeing in one lake near Orlando and could always see gator eyes in the water within 100 feet. We would paddle toward them, and they'd go under. We hauled ass out of there when one started swimming toward us.

There is also a famous true story that a former Orlando Sentinel foreign correspondent (those were the days!) wrestled his yellow lab out of the jaws of a gator in a downtown Orlando lake.

 

They will find the body or the gator. They always do.

 

Alligators are ugly.

 

Exactly. Reptiles get a bad rap.

 

Jesus, another Orlando story. How did last week's innocuous home of Mickey Mouse suddenly become the scariest place in the world?