'No no no, you choot em Lizbeth.'

He looks like that guy on Shipping Wars, only with his hair dyed black.

You call animal control for a gator under five feet or so around here, you won't be seeing animal control. FWC may operate under more responsive guidelines than SC DNR.

/Had to call them to get a 6-footer off my neighbors' porch
//I wasn't touching it!

Advice for living in America: you need permission from the government to do pretty much anything.

They arrested a guy because he took a farking baby alligator? Jesus Christ.

I'm guessing they arrest jay walkers and littering too over there.

/ assholes

That's some pretty terrible reporting. No explanation from the prosecutors / arresting officers for why they felt it was in the public interest to press charges?

Either the guy's full of crap and had nefarious intent, which would explain the prosecution trying to send him to jail, or he's a total innocent who was trying to do the right thing, in which case the state pressing charges is an outrage.

But based on the article, it's impossible to form either opinion. So why even bother writing the article? It read like a 4th grader's book report.

taurusowner: Advice for living in America: you need permission from the government to do pretty much anything.

Which Amendment is that again? The one guaranteeing the People's Right to Bear Alligators?

I like how they say an alligator bite can cause a bacterial infection that can kill you. From personal experience, bites from a baby gator barely break the skin.

please be an alligator....please be an alligator...
*clicks link*
YES!

Oznog: taurusowner: Advice for living in America: you need permission from the government to do pretty much anything.

Which Amendment is that again? The one guaranteeing the People's Right to Bear Alligators?

Bear Alligators? Bearigators. That mental image is nightmare fuel.

juvandy: I like how they say an alligator bite can cause a bacterial infection that can kill you. From personal experience, bites from a baby gator barely break the skin.

The bite's more of a sawing action, right?

/obscure?

This is how SyFy Original Movies happen.

You get arrested and booked for a "second-degree misdemeanor"?? Wouldn't everybody get off a little cheaper with, say, a citation of some sort?

Wonder where that Loosiana sheriff went to?

Wow - now maybe the local cops can go bust a kid for a joint. Then there will be no more criminals in Florida.

factoryconnection: You call animal control for a gator under five feet or so around here, you won't be seeing animal control. FWC may operate under more responsive guidelines than SC DNR.

/Had to call them to get a 6-footer off my neighbors' porch
//I wasn't touching it!

SC is probably a little different than Florida. I'd be pretty tempted to just shoot it.

The Onion is prophetic: [www.ocala.com image 480x640]

How did you link the second page and not the first one that has his mugshot?

I hear ya.

His brother Machete will bust him out.

FTA: She said if the alligator had bitten someone, a toxic bacteria they carry can cause death if not treated quickly with an antibiotic.

VENOMOUS ALLIGATORS?!!!1!?

redmid17: SC is probably a little different than Florida. I'd be pretty tempted to just shoot it.

For smaller gators, they say "call your HOA, they all buy a few tags every year to take care of such things."

taurusowner: Advice for living in America: you need permission from the government to do pretty much anything.

Endangered species protection is not a new thing in the states, even though I have to wonder if alligators are anywhere near endangered anymore. Any species of which at least six live in my neighborhood alone can't be all that threatened!

Finally, now that this guy is in jail I feel safer when walking the streets at night watching the baby alligators. Good job Florida.

cgraves67: Oznog: taurusowner: Advice for living in America: you need permission from the government to do pretty much anything.

Which Amendment is that again? The one guaranteeing the People's Right to Bear Alligators?

Bear Alligators? Bearigators. That mental image is nightmare fuel.

BEARIGATOR! - A SyFy original

TnJed: You get arrested and booked for a "second-degree misdemeanor"?? Wouldn't everybody get off a little cheaper with, say, a citation of some sort?

Hah.

If he isn't booked:

The cops don't get overtime.
Some lawyer doesn't get a fee.
The court doesn't get court costs or a fine in its coffers.
The jail doesn't get its "incarceration fee".
The county doesn't get another notch on its arrest belt.
The county prosecutor doesn't get their share for pressing another case.
Whatever agency runs it doesn't get their "educational/class fee" for whatever class the court will assign this guy to to make sure he doesn't do it again.

I'm sure there's stuff I'm leaving out.

If LEOs/Courts used common sense, nobody would get paid.

Nina9: please be an alligator....please be an alligator...
*clicks link*
YES!

xanadian: Hah, how did I know it was an alligator before I even clicked on TFA...

saw the tag. "oh, jeez. a gator?"

*click*

ayup. The Wang of America did not disappoint.

Aw, lookit the poor wittle baby awwigator. He's cold in this ungodly 63 degrees from hell's freezer. Since I know he'll never grow up to be a maneater if I show him some love and compassion, I'll take it home and warm it up.

Oznog: taurusowner: Advice for living in America: you need permission from the government to do pretty much anything.

Which Amendment is that again? The one guaranteeing the People's Right to Bear Alligators?

Pursuit of happiness. Baby alligators make people happy.

special20: Worse still - is that the idiots released the gator back into the wild. Now that gator has no fear of humans

Well, I could be wrong, but I see a good deal of alligators here in South Carolina, and they don't seem to have any "fear of humans" to lose in the first place.

Missicat: Sooo....there is such a thing as an "alligator permit"? Really?

Yep. I've got a concealed carry permit, allowing me to keep an alligator in my pocket.

TheDumbBlonde: By the looks of the gator-napper, he was clearly planning on eating it.

Has anyone else here eaten gator? Fried gator is absolutely delicious.

Babby alligator?

TheDumbBlonde: Missicat: Sooo....there is such a thing as an "alligator permit"? Really?

Yes. You mustn't molest the gators, my dear. It's dangerous, and very poor manners as well.

I hope that folks stay away from those cold-blooded, ill-tempered beasts. They should avoid the 'gators as well.

"I just wanted to help the little guy ... "

Oh, I so see this sort of event in my sons' future. There is hardly a creature is existence that doesn't elicit an "aww" from him.

They're not endangered anymore, time stop the ridiculousness.

srtpointman: Oznog: taurusowner: Advice for living in America: you need permission from the government to do pretty much anything.

Which Amendment is that again? The one guaranteeing the People's Right to Bear Alligators?

No, the one guaranteeing people the right to alligator arms. Do you even READ the constitution?



But alligators don't have "arms", just "legs". Bears are of course 4-legged too, but they do stand rampant on two legs at times. Perhaps the writers of the Constitution were a LITTLE technically inaccurate in referring to them as Bear Arms, but I think we all understand what is meant.

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Rufus Lee King: Well, I could be wrong, but I see a good deal of alligators here in South Carolina, and they don't seem to have any "fear of humans" to lose in the first place.

Nope... they know their place on the pecking order:
(1) Armored, amphibious, over-strong, ill-tempered dinosaur relic
...
(2) All other creatures (humans, dogs, deer, cats, ducks, fish, etc...)

Oznog: srtpointman: Oznog: taurusowner: Advice for living in America: you need permission from the government to do pretty much anything.

Which Amendment is that again? The one guaranteeing the People's Right to Bear Alligators?

No, the one guaranteeing people the right to alligator arms. Do you even READ the constitution?

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But alligators don't have "arms", just "legs". Bears are of course 4-legged too, but they do stand rampant on two legs at times. Perhaps the writers of the Constitution were a LITTLE technically inaccurate in referring to them as Bear Arms, but I think we all understand what is meant.

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