Comments | arrowedheart: In a while, crocodile . . . you'll be looking for some dessert.

arrowedheart

In a while, crocodile . . . you'll be looking for some dessert.

May 08, 2005 15:14

Today was a lovely day for going in our pool. So we whiled away a good hour, floating about in the sun. My mom was the first one out, and she turned her head to look towards the lake behind our house ( Read more... )

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ultharkitty May 8 2005, 20:39:31 UTC

Dude.

(being English the very idea of wildlife that can eat you being anywhere near you isn't somethign I come across much. The bit of me that likes nature red in tooth and claw is going WOW! :P)

rensong May 8 2005, 21:40:47 UTC

Holy crap... That would be kinda freaky.

All we have to worry about up here is the occasional (and I mean occasional - to this day, I've never seen one personally and I've lived her for 20 years) bear, and the closest I ever got to one of those (besides the one in the zoo) is this huge paw print in the mud we found when I was 7 or 8 years old in the field about a quarter mile away from our house. Have lots of friends/friends of friends who claim they have seen one, though.

arrowedheart May 8 2005, 21:42:30 UTC

Oh, in New Jersey, we had a bear on our front steps once. It was there for about 30 minutes, with animal control and a few local cops trying to coax it away. We were inside eating dinner and didn't even know until two days later. :)

rensong May 8 2005, 21:53:23 UTC

lol ( ... )

galialuna May 9 2005, 06:40:24 UTC

My husband lived in Florida and they had a little "friend" that would pass behind(their house was right on the water and had a fence around) their house everyday. He was around 5 feet long(a little guy if you consider how big those can get)and never bothered them. I think they have many pictures of him. I believe they called him Giocondo(don't ask). They seem to have been very amused by that croc.

On the other hand, an elderly lady in their community, who was sun bathing/sleeping in her back yard got snatched and eaten by one of those creatures. So it goes without saying that you have to try to call the Fish and Wildlife A.S.A.P.

And this is going to sound very "tree-huggerish" but, if you think about it, those things have been around since before us(no?) and well... They ain't goin' nowheres!(going for the southern thing) In theory, YOU are in THEIR backyard. And as you can see, I lost my train of thought and that didn't sound tree huggerish at all because I am just rambling on and talking shit instead of going to sleep.