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No, We Don’t Think She’s From Florida, Why Do You Ask?

Random public domain alligatorWoman killed after trying to pet alligator. File in the stranger-than-fiction department:

  • The woman — who was, I emphasize, from South Carolina — was visiting a gated community to do a homeowner’s nails [note: social distance much?].
  • She saw the alligator, so naturally she went outside to pet it.
  • Nearby watchers shouted at her to get away because they’d seen the alligator take a deer a few days earlier.
  • “I don’t look like a deer” the woman said.
  • The alligator chomped, but at first she got away.
  • “After briefly getting away from the alligator Friday, the woman stood in waist deep water in the Kiawah Island pond and said ‘I guess I wont do this again,’”
  • But it was too late….

This is only the third known alligator-caused fatality in South Carolina’s modern history, so how could the woman be expected to know that petting an alligator was a bad idea?

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Barley

Self-indulgence time. Michael said that I could post one picture of my dog, Barley (’cause he drove me to drink) on this site. B Dawg is mostly black lab and about a year old. I rescued him in April from Miami-Dade Animal Services, as featured on Animal Police Miami on Animal Planet. I haven’t exactly mastered my little Nikon Coolpix, which I purchased just to take pictures of Barley, so the picture ain’t great, but it shows Barley’s personality.

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