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Mish mash => Open Forum => Topic started by: Conrad on July 04, 2015, 07:17:43 AM
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Give this man first place! I hope that he didn't have any kids...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/04/us/texas-alligator-attack/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/04/us/texas-alligator-attack/index.html)
(CNN)—A man who apparently mocked alligators, then jumped in the water -- despite warning signs -- is dead after being attacked in Texas.
Orange County Police were called to Burkart's Marina near the Louisiana state line early Friday morning after reports that Tommie Woodward, 28, and an unidentified woman were swimming in a bayou and had been attacked by a large alligator.
Woodward's body was found several hours later. The woman was not injured.
Orange County Justice of the Peace Rodney Price told CNN affiliate KFDM that Woodward ignored verbal warnings and a posted "No Swimming Alligators" sign and seemed to mock the deadly creatures before going in the water.
"He removed his shirt, removed his billfold ... someone shouted a warning and he said 'blank the alligators' and jumped in to the water and almost immediately yelled for help," Price said.
The "No Swimming Alligators" sign was posted this week after a 10-foot alligator was spotted in the bayou waters.
Witness heard 'An alligator's got him'
"Please do not go swimming, there's a bigger alligator out here. Just please stay out of the water," witness and marina employee Michelle Wright said she told Woodward.
She said the next thing she heard was the woman screaming, "An alligator's got him." Wright said she used a flashlight in the darkness to scan the water.
In an emotional interview with KFDM, Wright said, "I saw his body floating face down. And then he's out there for a couple of seconds and then he's dragged back down. And then he comes back up still face down and then he gets pulled down again. And then he just disappears."
Wright, who said she knew the victim and his family, said it was a moment she would never forget. She described the events that started out as a late night swim as "heartbreaking."
Woodward had recently moved to the area from St. Louis with his twin brother and was working at a nearby shipyard.
'If the sun is down, stay out of the water'
Alligators are predatory and territorial. According to Texas Parks and Wildlife, the creature "will eat anything it can catch," and should be treated with caution.
"If the sun is down, stay out the water. That's when they're eating. That's when they're hunting," alligator expert Arlie Hammonds told the affiliate.
Although there have been numerous fatal alligator attacks in Florida, the Orange County attack may be the first of its kind in Texas.
I wonder if alcohol was involved? :o
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No sympathy wasted here. ::)
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"I wonder if alcohol was involved?"
Something obviously killed off the brain cells, and it took more than a few generous doses, I'm sure.
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Quote: "I wonder if alcohol was involved?" :o
Probably not, I don't think 'gators drink. ;)
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When I was in my teens we knowingly swam in a pond that had gators in it... Mind you there was much alcohol involved the night before and part of the novel was to jump in the pond in the morning and retrieve a beer that would have been thrown into the pond. Never had any trouble but we would have never so much as thought about swimming there at night and we knew that the pond did not have any large gators or at least nothing over 4 to 5 foot. At that size they are still rather timid and will avoid human contact as much as able....
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Quote: "I wonder if alcohol was involved?" :o
Probably not, I don't think 'gators drink. ;)
They don't? Who's drinking all that Busch beer then?
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He won't do that again :-[ :-[ Steve
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And heeeeeere's another one.................
http://news.yahoo.com/police-man-shoots-off-firework-top-head-dies-135937499.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=ma (http://news.yahoo.com/police-man-shoots-off-firework-top-head-dies-135937499.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=ma)
F'ing genius.
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And heeeeeere's another one.................
http://news.yahoo.com/police-man-shoots-off-firework-top-head-dies-135937499.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=ma (http://news.yahoo.com/police-man-shoots-off-firework-top-head-dies-135937499.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=ma)
F'ing genius.
As the story says....
"Apparently, he thought that was a great idea"
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And heeeeeere's another one.................
http://news.yahoo.com/police-man-shoots-off-firework-top-head-dies-135937499.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=ma (http://news.yahoo.com/police-man-shoots-off-firework-top-head-dies-135937499.html?soc_src=mediacontentstory&soc_trk=ma)
F'ing genius.
"Apparently, he thought that was a great idea," McCausland said. "His friends they thought dissuaded him from doing it, and the next thing they knew, he ignited the fireworks and he was killed instantly."
Staples's brother Cody told the Daily News of New York that he was a few feet away when his brother lit the firework and was the first to come to his side after it exploded.
"There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there," said 25-year-old Cody Staples, who called it an accident.
"Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid. He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh," he said.
Between this 'smart guy" (according to his father's statement) and the guy swimming with the 'gators in the dark, it'll be a close race for first place.
More idiots.
In Montana on Saturday, a 32-year-old man was killed at a Billings home in a fireworks accident involving a mortar tube.
And in New Jersey, a 52-year-old man blew off a large piece of his left leg below the knee when he set off a tennis-ball sized firework in Leonia.
You don't see kids putting fireworks on their heads and lighting them. Kids know better.
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... You don't see kids putting fireworks on their heads and lighting them. Kids know better.
Yeah we had the smarts to call it quits at Black Cats, Penny Rockets and Roman Candles.....
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Yeah we had the smarts to call it quits at Black Cats, Penny Rockets and Roman Candles.....
I made my own fireworks when I was a kid, kinda.
I'd cut my dad's shotgun shells apart and get the gunpowder out. I filled glass cigar tubes with the powder and used the fuses from firecrackers. I never got hurt but I can't say the same for our neighbor's mailbox. :-[
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Hold my beer....
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Hold my beer....
That's the most commonly heard phrase in the moments preceding a call for an ambulance.
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That's the most commonly heard phrase in the moments preceding a call for an ambulance.
That and..."Hey, watch this!"
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He probably said there weren't any gators in the water and since he was from MO (not far from me) his friends said, "Show Me".
The gator has been shot, albeit illegally. Parts of the guy were found in the gator.
"Left arm gone clean up to the elbow".
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Was his name Amos Moses?
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And did he live in the Bayou?
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Now if more of the dimwits would do this on a more regular basis, perhaps the gene pool would slowly start to improve again.
You know thin the herd and all, dump the stupid- by whatever means necessary.
Why should people with brain matter and a decent job have to pay for those who don't?
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Now if more of the dimwits would do this on a more regular basis, perhaps the gene pool would slowly start to improve again.
You know thin the herd and all, dump the stupid- by whatever means necessary.
Why should people with brain matter and a decent job have to pay for those who don't?
...because we elect them to public office...
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...because we elect them to public office...
:rotflmao:
Oh wait, :'(
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A gator filled moat around Capitol Hill?
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With bags of money tied around the gators.
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Quote: "I wonder if alcohol was involved?" :o
Probably not, I don't think 'gators drink. ;)
:rotflmao: :goodpost:
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A gator filled moat around Capitol Hill?
Can we fill the moat with politicians before we dump in the 'gators?
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Can we fill the moat with politicians before we dump in the 'gators?
Ok. I'm good with that.
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We are so PC in this country, we are trying to hard to save every dimwhit there is.
"No smoking while pumping gas"
Why not, it would help the gene pool.
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We are so PC in this country, we are trying to hard to save every dimwhit there is.
"No smoking while pumping gas"
Why not, it would help the gene pool.
But they may take out some of the rest of us. Seat belt and helmet laws could be done away with. That would help the gene pool.
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We are so PC in this country, we are trying to hard to save every dimwhit there is.
"No smoking while pumping gas"
Why not, it would help the gene pool.
The explosion may also injure nearby quality, beneficial, innocent folks.
Like myself 8)
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We are so PC in this country, we are trying to hard to save every dimwhit there is.
"No smoking while pumping gas"
Why not, it would help the gene pool.
Hey, I haven't blown up yet!
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Still plenty of time...
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What could go wrong?
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When I was a kid, I worked at a high volume gas station as a pump jockey. We always pumped over 5000 gallons of gas in an 8 hour shift. And we all smoked. All the time. Never gave it a second thought. But at the time, we also painted cars with lacquer and never used a mask. And cleaned lots of parts with carbon tet. Relined more asbestos brakes than I care to think about. I ride my motorcycle way to fast to worry about most other health concerns....
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I'm with you with that...
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Yes and I played with lawn darts, and lit firecrackers in my hands. And survived. :)
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Yes and I played with lawn darts, and lit firecrackers in my hands. And survived. :)
I still have a set of real lawn jarts out in the garage. Once in a while when I want to live dangerously I get 'em out.
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And of course his mom can't accept that he was responsible for his own fate, wants stricter laws:
http://www.guns.com/2015/07/07/man-dies-after-lighting-firework-atop-head-mother-calls-for-fireworks-control/ (http://www.guns.com/2015/07/07/man-dies-after-lighting-firework-atop-head-mother-calls-for-fireworks-control/)
Once again, blame the system or society or anybody except the guy who's really at fault. I have no children, so I don't understand, how is it that parents can't see that they raised an idiot? Some sort of reproductive blindness?
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I've maintained for decades that an intelligence test should be given in 8th grade. Failed test = immediate sterilization.
I'm not suggesting a master race, but stupid people have stupid children.
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I've maintained for decades that an intelligence test should be given in 8th grade. Failed test = immediate sterilization.
I'm not suggesting a master race, but stupid people have stupid children.
Maybe at some far point in the future they'll be able to scan one's DNA before birth and actually fix stupid before it's released on the world.
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You can't fix stupid.
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Maybe a test before getting pregnant and if failed chemically sterilized until intelligence is found or returned, then fertility restored. Stupid animals die. Lawyers protect stupid people, and if they die, its payday for their family.
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My theory is everyone gets birth control, put it in the water or whatever. When you want to have a kid, take classes, pass tests, etc. Then you get the antidote for the birth control.
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I've never thought of that before.
That's quite brilliant.
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... and then there'd be a black market for the anti-dote.... :o
Jamie
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A bad thing: too many stupid people procreating
A worse thing: the government controlling who gets to procreate
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+1 The second part would be even scarier.
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Yeah, Gov't controlling procreation isn't good. Hey, lets contract it out, I mean they contract everything else out, why not who has kids?
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If I go to my wife and suggest outsourcing sex.....what could go wrong?
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Tell her its for the good of all mankind.
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Well, she might not come back after..... oh wait, did you mean outsourcing for YOU?
:-)
Brian
If I go to my wife and suggest outsourcing sex.....what could go wrong?
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Well, she might not come back after..... oh wait, did you mean outsourcing for YOU?
:-)
Brian
Excellent! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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Well, she might not come back after..... oh wait, did you mean outsourcing for YOU?
:-)
Brian
At my age it could go either way. :-\
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In the spirit of teamwork and saving mankind. By the time this type of thing happens, physical activity in the manner we now know will not take place to produce offspring so the whole ick factor for some has totally been removed.
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If I go to my wife and suggest outsourcing sex.....what could go wrong?
What ever you do, don't have a list of names in hand...
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In the spirit of teamwork and saving mankind. By the time this type of thing happens, physical activity in the manner we now know will not take place to produce offspring so the whole ick factor for some has totally been removed.
That would take almost all the fun out of it right there!
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What ever you do, don't have a list of names in hand...
:-X
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Actually, I'm a great fan of messy.