something touched my leg.....SOMETHING TOUCHED MY LEG !!!

I'm picturing the scene in Robin Hood: Men in Tights where Little John falls in the tiny creek and splashes around while Robin watches in confusion.

were they midgets?

There be alligators and pythons in them waters ...

Three feet of water, sure. But how far deep in were they?

That could have been a long walk back to civilization without rescue.

Having been stranded in the Everglades on an airboat with a plugged fuel filter.. (luckily the operator carried spares and tools and was able to get the boat running again) I can say I'd rather not try to walk out of that three feet of water through snake and gator infested swamp... Just saying.

When my wife and I lived in Florida, we loved kayaking and canoeing through the springs and swamps. Not only was the surrounding jungle beautiful, but there was always that hint of danger knowing that alligators were lurking beneath the water. We called it quits though after an experience we had near Blue Springs State Park. As we were paddling away from the dock to start our trip, I noticed a group of children were throwing their picnic leftovers into the water, for the ducks. It didn't strike me as odd until it occurred to me later as to what they were actually doing - chumming the waters. The wife and I had a nice trip, uneventful, and were paddling back to the dock about two hours later.

Just as we approached, this canoe of six or seven Filipino men were trying to push off. The canoe could've safely held two, maybe three, but these jackasses had it loaded down so that the edges were near the water. One of him drops his paddle into the water, and as he's reaching for it, he upsets the boat which immediately fills with water and sinks underneath them. They weren't wearing life jackets and it didn't look like any of them knew how to swim. They were thirty yards or so from shore, and an old dead tree was sticking out of the water. They all scrambled and splashed for the tree, pushing each other away as they fought for safety.

There was no way in hell I was going to risk our boat trying to save them. In their panic, they would've surely tipped us over too. So I paddled us back a great enough distance to keep safe. Unfortunately, on shore, the mens' families and children were screaming on the shore, making the situation worse, though understandably frightened. All of the canoes had been rented out, so there wasn't much the park employees could do. They tried throwing them life jackets, which they should've been wearing, but the wide was strong enough to knock them down.

Then all of a sudden, one of the guy screams and goes under. You could still hear him screaming beneath the water. A big red blossom of blood explodes and the terrorized men tried to climb the dead tree to little success. Then another one goes under, but the gator that had him by the legs had competition from another gator. Both alligators lunge up and out of the water, this Filipino guy's legs and midsection stuck in the gator's jaws. He's screaming as the second gator grabs his arm and tears it off, blood spraying across the water. The blood and thrashing quickly drew more gators. And one by one, they pulled the Filipinos under. Heads and feet and hands would bob to the surface before one of the small gators would grab them under.

Quite a sickening experience and it ended my enthusiasm for canoeing in Florida...

MisterRonbo: Alligators. Poisonous snakes. Boa constrictors that chuckle heads get for a pet and then release in to the wild.

Welcome to the Everglades where, yes, you can die in three feet of water.

Bonus: Ever try to walk through, say, five miles of swamp? Without a GPS?

..and on weed?

cbackous: jehovahs witness protection: Mildot: were they midgets?

Does everything have to become porn?

please read rule 42.

And then when you're done read rule 34.

HELP HELP, I CAN'T SWIM!!



/Lil blurry, sorry. Had to snapshot it from a vid

Five bucks says they forgot to put the scupper plugs back in.

spentmiles: When my wife and I lived in Florida, we loved kayaking and canoeing through the springs and swamps. Not only was the surrounding jungle beautiful, but there was always that hint of danger knowing that alligators were lurking beneath the water. We called it quits though after an experience we had near Blue Springs State Park. As we were paddling away from the dock to start our trip, I noticed a group of children were throwing their picnic leftovers into the water, for the ducks. It didn't strike me as odd until it occurred to me later as to what they were actually doing - chumming the waters. The wife and I had a nice trip, uneventful, and were paddling back to the dock about two hours later.

Just as we approached, this canoe of six or seven Filipino men were trying to push off. The canoe could've safely held two, maybe three, but these jackasses had it loaded down so that the edges were near the water. One of him drops his paddle into the water, and as he's reaching for it, he upsets the boat which immediately fills with water and sinks underneath them. They weren't wearing life jackets and it didn't look like any of them knew how to swim. They were thirty yards or so from shore, and an old dead tree was sticking out of the water. They all scrambled and splashed for the tree, pushing each other away as they fought for safety.

There was no way in hell I was going to risk our boat trying to save them. In their panic, they would've surely tipped us over too. So I paddled us back a great enough distance to keep safe. Unfortunately, on shore, the mens' families and children were screaming on the shore, making the situation worse, though understandably frightened. All of the canoes had been rented out, so there wasn't much the park employees could do. They tried throwing them life jackets, which they should've been wearing, but the wide was strong enough to knock them down.

Then all of a sudden, one of the guy screams and goes under. You could still hear him screaming beneath the water. A big red blossom of blood explodes and the terrorized men tried to climb the dead tree to little success. Then another one goes under, but the gator that had him by the legs had competition from another gator. Both alligators lunge up and out of the water, this Filipino guy's legs and midsection stuck in the gator's jaws. He's screaming as the second gator grabs his arm and tears it off, blood spraying across the water. The blood and thrashing quickly drew more gators. And one by one, they pulled the Filipinos under. Heads and feet and hands would bob to the surface before one of the small gators would grab them under.

Quite a sickening experience and it my enthusiasm for canoeing in Florida...

Shame you couldn't capture it on video

spentmiles: When my wife and I lived in Florida, we loved kayaking and canoeing through the springs and swamps. Not only was the surrounding jungle beautiful, but there was always that hint of danger knowing that alligators were lurking beneath the water. We called it quits though after an experience we had near Blue Springs State Park. As we were paddling away from the dock to start our trip, I noticed a group of children were throwing their picnic leftovers into the water, for the ducks. It didn't strike me as odd until it occurred to me later as to what they were actually doing - chumming the waters. The wife and I had a nice trip, uneventful, and were paddling back to the dock about two hours later.

Just as we approached, this canoe of six or seven Filipino men were trying to push off. The canoe could've safely held two, maybe three, but these jackasses had it loaded down so that the edges were near the water. One of him drops his paddle into the water, and as he's reaching for it, he upsets the boat which immediately fills with water and sinks underneath them. They weren't wearing life jackets and it didn't look like any of them knew how to swim. They were thirty yards or so from shore, and an old dead tree was sticking out of the water. They all scrambled and splashed for the tree, pushing each other away as they fought for safety.

There was no way in hell I was going to risk our boat trying to save them. In their panic, they would've surely tipped us over too. So I paddled us back a great enough distance to keep safe. Unfortunately, on shore, the mens' families and children were screaming on the shore, making the situation worse, though understandably frightened. All of the canoes had been rented out, so there wasn't much the park employees could do. They tried throwing them life jackets, which they should've been wearing, but the wide was strong enough to knock them down.

Then all of a sudden, one of the guy screams and goes under. You could still hear him screaming beneath the water. A big red blossom of blood explodes and the terrorized men tried to climb the dead tree to little success. Then another one goes under, but the gator that had him by the legs had competition from another gator. Both alligators lunge up and out of the water, this Filipino guy's legs and midsection stuck in the gator's jaws. He's screaming as the second gator grabs his arm and tears it off, blood spraying across the water. The blood and thrashing quickly drew more gators. And one by one, they pulled the Filipinos under. Heads and feet and hands would bob to the surface before one of the small gators would grab them under.

Quite a sickening experience and it ended my enthusiasm for canoeing in Florida...

Something like this would have definitely made news. Either my Google-fu is off, or ....?

spentmiles: When my wife and I lived in Florida, we loved kayaking and canoeing through the springs and swamps. Not only was the surrounding jungle beautiful, but there was always that hint of danger knowing that alligators were lurking beneath the water. We called it quits though after an experience we had near Blue Springs State Park. As we were paddling away from the dock to start our trip, I noticed a group of children were throwing their picnic leftovers into the water, for the ducks. It didn't strike me as odd until it occurred to me later as to what they were actually doing - chumming the waters. The wife and I had a nice trip, uneventful, and were paddling back to the dock about two hours later.

Just as we approached, this canoe of six or seven Filipino men were trying to push off. The canoe could've safely held two, maybe three, but these jackasses had it loaded down so that the edges were near the water. One of him drops his paddle into the water, and as he's reaching for it, he upsets the boat which immediately fills with water and sinks underneath them. They weren't wearing life jackets and it didn't look like any of them knew how to swim. They were thirty yards or so from shore, and an old dead tree was sticking out of the water. They all scrambled and splashed for the tree, pushing each other away as they fought for safety.

There was no way in hell I was going to risk our boat trying to save them. In their panic, they would've surely tipped us over too. So I paddled us back a great enough distance to keep safe. Unfortunately, on shore, the mens' families and children were screaming on the shore, making the situation worse, though understandably frightened. All of the canoes had been rented out, so there wasn't much the park employees could do. They tried throwing them life jackets, which they should've been wearing, but the wide was strong enough to knock them down.

Then all of a sudden, one of the guy screams and goes under. You could still hear him screaming beneath the water. A big red blossom of blood explodes and the terrorized men tried to climb the dead tree to little success. Then another one goes under, but the gator that had him by the legs had competition from another gator. Both alligators lunge up and out of the water, this Filipino guy's legs and midsection stuck in the gator's jaws. He's screaming as the second gator grabs his arm and tears it off, blood spraying across the water. The blood and thrashing quickly drew more gators. And one by one, they pulled the Filipinos under. Heads and feet and hands would bob to the surface before one of the small gators would grab them under.

Quite a sickening experience and it ended my enthusiasm for canoeing in Florida...

OK, I'm still waiting for the punch line.

I say we put subby on semi submerged boat anywhere in the EverGlades and see if he/she calls for rescue.

Wish I'd been there.

3ft of water... 5ft of muck on the bottom.

This story reminds me of the time I got stuck on an escalator at the mall.

spentmiles: When my wife and I lived in Florida, we loved kayaking and canoeing through the springs and swamps. Not only was the surrounding jungle beautiful, but there was always that hint of danger knowing that alligators were lurking beneath the water. We called it quits though after an experience we had near Blue Springs State Park. As we were paddling away from the dock to start our trip, I noticed a group of children were throwing their picnic leftovers into the water, for the ducks. It didn't strike me as odd until it occurred to me later as to what they were actually doing - chumming the waters. The wife and I had a nice trip, uneventful, and were paddling back to the dock about two hours later.

Just as we approached, this canoe of six or seven Filipino men were trying to push off. The canoe could've safely held two, maybe three, but these jackasses had it loaded down so that the edges were near the water. One of him drops his paddle into the water, and as he's reaching for it, he upsets the boat which immediately fills with water and sinks underneath them. They weren't wearing life jackets and it didn't look like any of them knew how to swim. They were thirty yards or so from shore, and an old dead tree was sticking out of the water. They all scrambled and splashed for the tree, pushing each other away as they fought for safety.

There was no way in hell I was going to risk our boat trying to save them. In their panic, they would've surely tipped us over too. So I paddled us back a great enough distance to keep safe. Unfortunately, on shore, the mens' families and children were screaming on the shore, making the situation worse, though understandably frightened. All of the canoes had been rented out, so there wasn't much the park employees could do. They tried throwing them life jackets, which they should've been wearing, but the wide was strong enough to knock them down.

Then all of a sudden, one of the guy screams and goes under. You could still hear him screaming beneath the water. A big red blossom of blood explodes and the terrorized men tried to climb the dead tree to little success. Then another one goes under, but the gator that had him by the legs had competition from another gator. Both alligators lunge up and out of the water, this Filipino guy's legs and midsection stuck in the gator's jaws. He's screaming as the second gator grabs his arm and tears it off, blood spraying across the water. The blood and thrashing quickly drew more gators. And one by one, they pulled the Filipinos under. Heads and feet and hands would bob to the surface before one of the small gators would grab them under.

Quite a sickening experience and it ended my enthusiasm for canoeing in Florida...

Those are many words

sweet-daddy-2: spentmiles: When my wife and I lived in Florida, we loved kayaking and canoeing through the springs and swamps. Not only was the surrounding jungle beautiful, but there was always that hint of danger knowing that alligators were lurking beneath the water. We called it quits though after an experience we had near Blue Springs State Park. As we were paddling away from the dock to start our trip, I noticed a group of children were throwing their picnic leftovers into the water, for the ducks. It didn't strike me as odd until it occurred to me later as to what they were actually doing - chumming the waters. The wife and I had a nice trip, uneventful, and were paddling back to the dock about two hours later.

Just as we approached, this canoe of six or seven Filipino men were trying to push off. The canoe could've safely held two, maybe three, but these jackasses had it loaded down so that the edges were near the water. One of him drops his paddle into the water, and as he's reaching for it, he upsets the boat which immediately fills with water and sinks underneath them. They weren't wearing life jackets and it didn't look like any of them knew how to swim. They were thirty yards or so from shore, and an old dead tree was sticking out of the water. They all scrambled and splashed for the tree, pushing each other away as they fought for safety.

There was no way in hell I was going to risk our boat trying to save them. In their panic, they would've surely tipped us over too. So I paddled us back a great enough distance to keep safe. Unfortunately, on shore, the mens' families and children were screaming on the shore, making the situation worse, though understandably frightened. All of the canoes had been rented out, so there wasn't much the park employees could do. They tried throwing them life jackets, which they should've been wearing, but the wide was strong enough to knock them down.

Then all of a sudden, one of the guy screams and goes under. You could still hear him screaming beneath the water. A big red blossom of blood explodes and the terrorized men tried to climb the dead tree to little success. Then another one goes under, but the gator that had him by the legs had competition from another gator. Both alligators lunge up and out of the water, this Filipino guy's legs and midsection stuck in the gator's jaws. He's screaming as the second gator grabs his arm and tears it off, blood spraying across the water. The blood and thrashing quickly drew more gators. And one by one, they pulled the Filipinos under. Heads and feet and hands would bob to the surface before one of the small gators would grab them under.

Quite a sickening experience and it ended my enthusiasm for canoeing in Florida...

OK, I'm still waiting for the punch line.

Anyway, they delivered the bomb.

/here's to swimmin' with no-legged wimmen

Gruden: HELP HELP, I CAN'T SWIM!!



/Lil blurry, sorry. Had to snapshot it from a vid

Oblig


/we don't get no tolls
//we don't get no rolls

sweet-daddy-2: spentmiles: When my wife and I lived in Florida, we loved kayaking and canoeing through the springs and swamps. Not only was the surrounding jungle beautiful, but there was always that hint of danger knowing that alligators were lurking beneath the water. We called it quits though after an experience we had near Blue Springs State Park. As we were paddling away from the dock to start our trip, I noticed a group of children were throwing their picnic leftovers into the water, for the ducks. It didn't strike me as odd until it occurred to me later as to what they were actually doing - chumming the waters. The wife and I had a nice trip, uneventful, and were paddling back to the dock about two hours later.

Just as we approached, this canoe of six or seven Filipino men were trying to push off. The canoe could've safely held two, maybe three, but these jackasses had it loaded down so that the edges were near the water. One of him drops his paddle into the water, and as he's reaching for it, he upsets the boat which immediately fills with water and sinks underneath them. They weren't wearing life jackets and it didn't look like any of them knew how to swim. They were thirty yards or so from shore, and an old dead tree was sticking out of the water. They all scrambled and splashed for the tree, pushing each other away as they fought for safety.

There was no way in hell I was going to risk our boat trying to save them. In their panic, they would've surely tipped us over too. So I paddled us back a great enough distance to keep safe. Unfortunately, on shore, the mens' families and children were screaming on the shore, making the situation worse, though understandably frightened. All of the canoes had been rented out, so there wasn't much the park employees could do. They tried throwing them life jackets, which they should've been wearing, but the wide was strong enough to knock them down.

Then all of a sudden, one of the guy screams and goes under. You could still hear him screaming beneath the water. A big red blossom of blood explodes and the terrorized men tried to climb the dead tree to little success. Then another one goes under, but the gator that had him by the legs had competition from another gator. Both alligators lunge up and out of the water, this Filipino guy's legs and midsection stuck in the gator's jaws. He's screaming as the second gator grabs his arm and tears it off, blood spraying across the water. The blood and thrashing quickly drew more gators. And one by one, they pulled the Filipinos under. Heads and feet and hands would bob to the surface before one of the small gators would grab them under.

Quite a sickening experience and it ended my enthusiasm for canoeing in Florida...

OK, I'm still waiting for the punch line.

"...so I'm getting a kick out of these comments..."

spentmiles: When my wife and I lived in Florida, we loved kayaking and canoeing through the springs and swamps. Not only was the surrounding jungle beautiful, but there was always that hint of danger knowing that alligators were lurking beneath the water. We called it quits though after an experience we had near Blue Springs State Park. As we were paddling away from the dock to start our trip, I noticed a group of children were throwing their picnic leftovers into the water, for the ducks. It didn't strike me as odd until it occurred to me later as to what they were actually doing - chumming the waters. The wife and I had a nice trip, uneventful, and were paddling back to the dock about two hours later.

Just as we approached, this canoe of six or seven Filipino men were trying to push off. The canoe could've safely held two, maybe three, but these jackasses had it loaded down so that the edges were near the water. One of him drops his paddle into the water, and as he's reaching for it, he upsets the boat which immediately fills with water and sinks underneath them. They weren't wearing life jackets and it didn't look like any of them knew how to swim. They were thirty yards or so from shore, and an old dead tree was sticking out of the water. They all scrambled and splashed for the tree, pushing each other away as they fought for safety.

There was no way in hell I was going to risk our boat trying to save them. In their panic, they would've surely tipped us over too. So I paddled us back a great enough distance to keep safe. Unfortunately, on shore, the mens' families and children were screaming on the shore, making the situation worse, though understandably frightened. All of the canoes had been rented out, so there wasn't much the park employees could do. They tried throwing them life jackets, which they should've been wearing, but the wide was strong enough to knock them down.

Then all of a sudden, one of the guy screams and goes under. You could still hear him screaming beneath the water. A big red blossom of blood explodes and the terrorized men tried to climb the dead tree to little success. Then another one goes under, but the gator that had him by the legs had competition from another gator. Both alligators lunge up and out of the water, this Filipino guy's legs and midsection stuck in the gator's jaws. He's screaming as the second gator grabs his arm and tears it off, blood spraying across the water. The blood and thrashing quickly drew more gators. And one by one, they pulled the Filipinos under. Heads and feet and hands would bob to the surface before one of the small gators would grab them under.

Quite a sickening experience and it ended my enthusiasm for canoeing in Florida...

citation needed

When I was a very young kid we took a vacation to Florida. Not a strong swimmer, I was playing in a rubber raft at the break-line, having a great old time until I accidentally made it pass the breakers. Some sort of cross current got me and started sweeping me down the beach and away from shore. I tried paddling back, but couldn't beat the current. Alone, afraid, I started yelling for help, but no one could hear me. I got up on my knees and started waving for help, no one seemed to see me.

Eventually I was spotted. A lifeguard blew his whistle and, joined by another, they dived into the water and swam out to me. I watched them make their way through the breakers and struggle against the arduous current to my raft, feared that they would not be able to swim back with me.

It seemed like an eternity. But they finally reached the raft. I was still picturing the forthcoming struggle to return to the shore when the life guards stood up in the shallow waters, grabbed the rafts tow line and calmly walked the raft back to shore.

/not a CSB

cbackous: Seacop: cbackous: jehovahs witness protection: Mildot: were they midgets?

Does everything have to become porn?

please read rule 42.

And then when you're done read rule 34.

Yes. that's what I ment. Just saying it's important to have a towel.

Or at least some kleenex.

/thanks for all the fish

Spentmiles, I remember reading about that when I was living down there. It turned out they were all illegals, so no one cared and those people who had boats and did nothing were considered heroes. I think Rush even mentioned it on his show.

TheraTx: spentmiles: When my wife and I lived in Florida, we loved kayaking and canoeing through the springs and swamps. Not only was the surrounding jungle beautiful, but there was always that hint of danger knowing that alligators were lurking beneath the water. We called it quits though after an experience we had near Blue Springs State Park. As we were paddling away from the dock to start our trip, I noticed a group of children were throwing their picnic leftovers into the water, for the ducks. It didn't strike me as odd until it occurred to me later as to what they were actually doing - chumming the waters. The wife and I had a nice trip, uneventful, and were paddling back to the dock about two hours later.

Just as we approached, this canoe of six or seven Filipino men were trying to push off. The canoe could've safely held two, maybe three, but these jackasses had it loaded down so that the edges were near the water. One of him drops his paddle into the water, and as he's reaching for it, he upsets the boat which immediately fills with water and sinks underneath them. They weren't wearing life jackets and it didn't look like any of them knew how to swim. They were thirty yards or so from shore, and an old dead tree was sticking out of the water. They all scrambled and splashed for the tree, pushing each other away as they fought for safety.

There was no way in hell I was going to risk our boat trying to save them. In their panic, they would've surely tipped us over too. So I paddled us back a great enough distance to keep safe. Unfortunately, on shore, the mens' families and children were screaming on the shore, making the situation worse, though understandably frightened. All of the canoes had been rented out, so there wasn't much the park employees could do. They tried throwing them life jackets, which they should've been wearing, but the wide was strong enough to knock them down.

Then all of a sudden, one of the guy screams and goes under. You could still hear him screaming beneath the water. A big red blossom of blood explodes and the terrorized men tried to climb the dead tree to little success. Then another one goes under, but the gator that had him by the legs had competition from another gator. Both alligators lunge up and out of the water, this Filipino guy's legs and midsection stuck in the gator's jaws. He's screaming as the second gator grabs his arm and tears it off, blood spraying across the water. The blood and thrashing quickly drew more gators. And one by one, they pulled the Filipinos under. Heads and feet and hands would bob to the surface before one of the small gators would grab them under.

Quite a sickening experience and it ended my enthusiasm for canoeing in Florida...

citation needed

/news alert... Gators are not nice and can attack...
//citation not needed

Yeah right, the State of Florida, whose number one income is drawn from tourists, is going to self-report on a vicious alligator attack, especially when the victims were probably not US citizens. My friend was a Field and Game Officer in Florida, and he had hundreds of stories about wildlife attacks. Most of them get written off as accidental drownings with the animal attacks coming against the corpse. And unless it's a high profile victim, everything gets swept under the rug to protect the tourist dollars. It's amazing to me how many people allow their small children to swim in the springs in Florida, largely unattended. I guess people get what they deserve, but I don't think it's right of Florida to under-report the dangers of attacks.

When I was 4 or 5 my little brother and I were paddling around on a surfboard just offshore when a current started carrying us out to sea. We probably weren't all that far out, but it seemed very far at the time, and we couldn't paddle very well against the current. We were waving at people on shore and yelling, but they only waved back, of course. Eventually we got close enough in that I could touch the bottom and walk the surfboard in. No huge alligator attack occured, though, so this is a rather dull story. It could have been much more exciting, being off the coast of Australia, but luckily there were no sharks or blue-ringed octopuses around that day.

When i was a kid, my family took a vacation to Florida over the Christmas break. We rented a boat with a cabin just big enough for us to fit inside and we camped out in the boat on Christmas Eve. That night, we anchored just outside the ICW and everything was going fine until we woke up the next morning, Christmas, stuck on a sandbar. The anchor didn't hold and we drifted during the night. So myself, my brother, and my mom all got out and pushed the boat until we got it back into deeper water again.

The day before, we had been fishing there and we learned first-hand the damage that a barracuda could do to a fish. We were all a little nervous about getting in but we were reassured by my dad that barracudas never attack people, so in we went.

sxacho: When i was a kid, my family took a vacation to Florida over the Christmas break. We rented a boat with a cabin just big enough for us to fit inside and we camped out in the boat on Christmas Eve. That night, we anchored just outside the ICW and everything was going fine until we woke up the next morning, Christmas, stuck on a sandbar. The anchor didn't hold and we drifted during the night. So myself, my brother, and my mom all got out and pushed the boat until we got it back into deeper water again.

The day before, we had been fishing there and we learned first-hand the damage that a barracuda could do to a fish. We were all a little nervous about getting in but we were reassured by my dad that barracudas never attack people, so in we went.

Ever notice in this story you don't mention your dad in the water?

Once an entire town near the Glades was devoured by alligators, one night it was a thriving little village and the next morning it was devoid of life, hundreds of gators attacked at the same time, the government covered it up though.

s1ugg0: sxacho: When i was a kid, my family took a vacation to Florida over the Christmas break. We rented a boat with a cabin just big enough for us to fit inside and we camped out in the boat on Christmas Eve. That night, we anchored just outside the ICW and everything was going fine until we woke up the next morning, Christmas, stuck on a sandbar. The anchor didn't hold and we drifted during the night. So myself, my brother, and my mom all got out and pushed the boat until we got it back into deeper water again.

The day before, we had been fishing there and we learned first-hand the damage that a barracuda could do to a fish. We were all a little nervous about getting in but we were reassured by my dad that barracudas never attack people, so in we went.

Ever notice in this story you don't mention your dad in the water?

And he seemed oddly disappointed when everyone was back safely on the boat.

Quinzy: TheraTx: spentmiles: words...horror story words

citation needed

/news alert... Gators are not nice and can attack...
//citation not needed

there have 17 deaths since 1948 from gator attacks in FL. I'm supposed to believe this guy witnessed 6-7 at the same time and this never makes the news? there would have to be an article about this somewhere.

s1ugg0: sxacho: When i was a kid, my family took a vacation to Florida over the Christmas break. We rented a boat with a cabin just big enough for us to fit inside and we camped out in the boat on Christmas Eve. That night, we anchored just outside the ICW and everything was going fine until we woke up the next morning, Christmas, stuck on a sandbar. The anchor didn't hold and we drifted during the night. So myself, my brother, and my mom all got out and pushed the boat until we got it back into deeper water again.

The day before, we had been fishing there and we learned first-hand the damage that a barracuda could do to a fish. We were all a little nervous about getting in but we were reassured by my dad that barracudas never attack people, so in we went.

Ever notice in this story you don't mention your dad in the water?

Yes, a brave man. A captain willing to remain aboard ship even during the most dire of circumstances.

Gruden: HELP HELP, I CAN'T SWIM!!

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/Lil blurry, sorry. Had to snapshot it from a vid

And here I was thinking that I was gonna be so clever posting that in this thread.

/props

Quinzy: TheraTx: spentmiles: When my wife and I lived in Florida, we loved kayaking and canoeing through the springs and swamps. Not only was the surrounding jungle beautiful, but there was always that hint of danger knowing that alligators were lurking beneath the water. We called it quits though after an experience we had near Blue Springs State Park. As we were paddling away from the dock to start our trip, I noticed a group of children were throwing their picnic leftovers into the water, for the ducks. It didn't strike me as odd until it occurred to me later as to what they were actually doing - chumming the waters. The wife and I had a nice trip, uneventful, and were paddling back to the dock about two hours later.

Just as we approached, this canoe of six or seven Filipino men were trying to push off. The canoe could've safely held two, maybe three, but these jackasses had it loaded down so that the edges were near the water. One of him drops his paddle into the water, and as he's reaching for it, he upsets the boat which immediately fills with water and sinks underneath them. They weren't wearing life jackets and it didn't look like any of them knew how to swim. They were thirty yards or so from shore, and an old dead tree was sticking out of the water. They all scrambled and splashed for the tree, pushing each other away as they fought for safety.

There was no way in hell I was going to risk our boat trying to save them. In their panic, they would've surely tipped us over too. So I paddled us back a great enough distance to keep safe. Unfortunately, on shore, the mens' families and children were screaming on the shore, making the situation worse, though understandably frightened. All of the canoes had been rented out, so there wasn't much the park employees could do. They tried throwing them life jackets, which they should've been wearing, but the wide was strong enough to knock them down.

Then all of a sudden, one of the guy screams and goes under. You could still hear him screaming beneath the water. A big red blossom of blood explodes and the terrorized men tried to climb the dead tree to little success. Then another one goes under, but the gator that had him by the legs had competition from another gator. Both alligators lunge up and out of the water, this Filipino guy's legs and midsection stuck in the gator's jaws. He's screaming as the second gator grabs his arm and tears it off, blood spraying across the water. The blood and thrashing quickly drew more gators. And one by one, they pulled the Filipinos under. Heads and feet and hands would bob to the surface before one of the small gators would grab them under.

Quite a sickening experience and it ended my enthusiasm for canoeing in Florida...

citation needed

/news alert... Gators are not nice and can attack...
//citation not needed


I think he means that if a half-dozen people had been eaten by alligators at a state park, it would have been huge news.

One time I was in a truckstop bathroom somewhere in Florida and this creepy dude kept staring at me, making it so I couldn't piss. Later we went to some local eatery and I was able to urinate there.

I heard that the gators typically like to attack illegals because a diet high in mexican food makes your odor appealing to them. That and having dark oily skin tells the gator you are tender.

Wasilla Hillbilly: One time I was in a truckstop bathroom somewhere in Florida and this creepy dude kept staring at me, making it so I couldn't piss. Later we went to some local eatery and I was able to urinate there.

A year later the creepy dude was arrested for having killed over 25 random strangers

I had a friend that almost drowned in a 4 inch deep puddle in the parking lot of a Grateful Dead concert. Yes, mushrooms were a factor.

He was doing the breast stroke and freaking out. He went sober after that.